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Welcome to the IntelliJ Platform SDK. This is the primary source of documentation for extending the IntelliJ Platform, by creating plugins, custom language support or building a custom IDE.

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Getting Started

• What is the IntelliJ Platform?
• About this Guide
  • Key Topics
• Getting Help
• Getting Started
• Useful Links

Updates

See Recently Updated for latest changes. Follow JBPlatform on Twitter and visit JetBrains Platform Blog for latest announcements.

Are you upgrading your plugin to the latest platform release? Make sure to check Incompatible Changes as well as Notable Changes and Features.

NOTE If your plugin depends on Java and targets 2019.2, please make sure to follow the steps from this blog post.

Open Source

This guide is Open Source, and licensed under Apache 2.0. The source (as Markdown) is hosted on GitHub. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how to host the docs locally and contribute.

Please see Getting Help if you encounter bugs in this guide or require help with missing content.