IntelliJ IDEA

Plugins

• Darcula Darker Theme
  • A dark theme based on Darcula, but with more contrasting tones
• File Watchers
  • Executes task on file modifications
• Grazie
  • Advanced spelling and grammar checker
• Grazie Professional
  • Enhances the base Grazie plugin
• Ignore
  • Support for ignore files
• MDX Support
  • Add support for MDX files
• Presentation Assistant
  • Display shortcuts for invoked actions
• Shifter
  • Shifts many types of values up and down with a keyboard shortcut
• String Manipulation
  • Provides actions for text manipulation
• Twig support
  • Adds support for Twig and similar languages (e.g. Nunjucks)

Features

• Compound run configurations
• Internal clipboard: Ctrl + Shift + V
• Save window layout: Window → Store current layout as default

Color Themes

DK Monokai

• Blog post

Tomorrow Evening

• Blog post

Settings

Show current memory usage in the status bar

• ☑ Appearance & Behavior → Appearance → Show memory indicator

Adjust for widescreen

• ☑ Appearance & Behavior → Appearance → Widescreen tool window layout

Set default project directory

• ☑ Appearance & Behavior → System Settings → Project Opening → Default directory

Zoom with mouse wheel

• ☑ Editor → General → Change font size (zoom) with Ctrl+Mouse Wheel

Wrap long lines

• ☑ Editor → General → Use soft wraps in editor
• ☑ Editor → General → Use soft wraps in console
• Editor → General → Use custom soft wraps indent: 1

Trim trailing whitespace

• Editor → General → Strip trailing spaces on save: All

Add line feed at file end

• ☑ Editor → General → Ensure line feed at file end on save

Add indent according to code styles by pressing Enter

• ☑ Editor → General → Smart Keys → Enter → Smart indent

Whitespace-only modifications

• ☑ Editor → General → Different color for lines with whitespace-only modifications

Show line numbers

• ☑ Editor → General → Appearance → Show line numbers

Add unambiguous imports on the fly

• ☑ Editor → General → Auto Import → Add unambiguous imports on the fly

Hide file extensions and close icons on tabs

• ☑ Editor → General → Editor Tabs → Hide file extension in editor tabs
• ☐ Editor → General → Editor Tabs → Show "close" button on editor tabs

Open recent tab on closing another tab

• ☑ Editor → General → Editor Tabs → When closing active editor: Activate most recently opened tab

Open "go to" targets in a new tab

• ☐ Open declaration source in the same tab

Exclude some packages and classes from auto import/completion

• Editor → General → Auto Import → Exclude from Import and Completion

Don't use RTF for copy

• ☐ Editor → General → Copy as rich text by default

Disable Emmet for CSS

• ☐ Editor → Emmet → CSS → Enable CSS Emmet

Sort debugger fields alphabetically

• ☑ Build, Execution, Deployment → Debugger → Data Views → Sort alphabetically

Make project automatically

• ☑ Build, Execution, Deployment → Compiler → Make project automatically

Turn off selected tab underline

• Registry → ide.new.editor.tabs.selection

Speed-up merging

• ☑ Tools → Diff & Merge → Automatically apply non-conflicting changes

Use absolute paths for JavaScript imports

• ☑ Editor → Color Style → JavaScript → Imports → Use paths relative to the project, resource or sources roots

Set TODO format

• Editor → TODO → ☑ Case Sensitive, \bTODO\b:?

Use ECMAScript 6 by default (default settings)

• Languages & Frameworks → JavaScript → JavaScript language version: ECMAScript 6

Use high-contrast scrollbars

• ☑ Appearance & Behavior → Appearance → Accessibility → Use contrast scrollbars

Disable popup message for debugging websites

• ☑ Build, Execution, Deployment → Debugger → Allow unsigned requests

Improve TypeScript support

• ☑ Languages & Frameworks → TypeScript → Use types from server

Registry

• ☑ markdown.experimental.frontmatter.support.enable

Config folder

• Help → Edit Custom Properties
  • Check location of idea.properties

VCS Ignore Files

If you decide to share IDE project files with other developers, share:

• All the files under .idea directory in the project root except workspace.xml and tasks.xml which store user specific settings
• All the .iml module files that can be located in different module directories (applies to IntelliJ IDEA)

Source

Bugs

• Run menu shows "Nothing here"
  • Disable Gradle plugin