Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA
Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA
Level up your IntelliJ IDEA knowledge so that you can focus on doing what you do best.
About the Book
Tips and tricks designed to help you level up, whether you're just starting with IntelliJ IDEA or you've been a user for a while. Written with junior and senior developers in mind.
About the Authors
Table of Contents
- Dedication
- About the Authors
- Helen Scott
- Trisha Gee
- Why We Wrote This Book
- Getting the most from this book
- Who should read this book
- Signposts to Look Out For
- A Note About Shortcuts
- Feedback
- Acknowledgements
- Technical Reviewers
- Cover Design
- Part I: Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA
- Chapter 1. How Can IntelliJ IDEA Help You?
- Chapter 2. The IntelliJ IDEA Mindset
- 2.1. Always Green
- 2.2. Keyboard First
- 2.3. In the Flow
- Chapter 3. Installing IntelliJ IDEA
- Chapter 4. IntelliJ IDEA Out of the Box
- 4.1. Welcome Screen
- 4.2. Tip of the Day
- 4.3. New Feature Notifications
- 4.4. Balloon Notifications
- 4.5. Tool Window Buttons
- 4.6. Tool Windows
- 4.7. Navigation Bar
- 4.8. Editor Tabs
- 4.9. Status Bar
- 4.10. Breadcrumbs
- 4.11. Editor
- 4.12. Dialogs
- 4.13. After Upgrading
- 4.14. Tuning Your IDE
- Chapter 5. Where to Look
- 5.1. In The Editor
- 5.2. In Your Wider Project
- Chapter 6. How IntelliJ IDEA Sees Your Project
- 6.1. IntelliJ IDEA’s Internal Map
- 6.2. What is an IntelliJ IDEA Project?
- 6.3. Finding Your Code
- 6.4. Projects and Workspaces
- 6.5. Establishing Version Control Status
- 6.6. IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Framework support
- 6.7. Plugins and What They Give You
- Part II: Working with Code
- Chapter 7. Writing Code in IntelliJ IDEA
- Chapter 8. Staying in the flow with code completion & generation
- 8.1. Basic completion
- 8.2. Smart completion
- 8.3. Postfix completion
- 8.4. Complete statement
- 8.5. Live templates
- 8.6. Generate new (file templates)
- 8.7. Generate from error or warning
- Chapter 9. Always Green with Intelligent Suggestions
- 9.1. How can I tell if IntelliJ IDEA has a suggestion?
- 9.2. Fix Errors
- 9.3. Improve Code
- 9.4. Change Code
- 9.5. Spelling
- Chapter 10. Think "Keyboard First" with Editor tips
- 10.1. Must Have Shortcuts
- 10.2. Selecting Code
- 10.3. Convenience Shortcuts
- 10.4. Formatting
- 10.5. Arranging Your Code
- 10.6. More information
- Chapter 11. How to Move Through Your Code
- 11.1. Finding Anything
- 11.2. Viewing and Opening Recent Files
- 11.3. Viewing and Moving to Recent Locations
- 11.4. Moving Forward and Backward through code
- 11.5. Moving between your Class and its Test
- 11.6. Finding Where This Code is Used
- Chapter 12. Working with Dependencies
- 12.1. Understanding the terminology
- 12.2. Seeing your Project’s Dependencies
- 12.3. Adding dependencies with Maven or Gradle
- 12.4. Updating Dependencies
- 12.5. Adding Dependencies Without a dependency management tool
- Chapter 13. Keeping Track of Code Changes
- Chapter 14. Enable Version Control (Git)
- 14.1. Git Log Window
- 14.2. What happens when you change code under version control
- 14.3. What to look for when you’re ready to commit code
- 14.4. Your last line of defence
- 14.5. Getting code from version control (GitHub)
- Chapter 15. Reading Code
- 15.1. Inlay Hints
- 15.2. Code Vision
- 15.3. Quick Definition and Documentation
- 15.4. Javadoc
- 15.5. Code Folding
- 15.6. Code Analysis
- 15.7. Language Injection
- 15.8. Navigation
- 15.9. Version Control
- 15.10. Automated tests
- Part III: Running, Debugging and Testing
- Chapter 16. Running Your Code
- Chapter 17. Terminate a process
- Chapter 18. Getting Started with Debugging
- Chapter 19. Getting Started with Testing
- Chapter 20. Combining Testing and Debugging
- Chapter 21. Understanding what you’re running
- 21.1. What is a Run Configuration?
- 21.2. Editing Configurations
- 21.3. FAQs for running applications and tests
- 21.4. How do I… see the actual command IntelliJ IDEA is using to run my application
- 21.5. (⌃⌃ | Ctrl+Ctrl) Run Anything
- 21.6. Summarising the Run Configurations Dialog
- Part IV: IntelliJ IDEA Essentials
- Chapter 22. What an IDE gives you
- Chapter 23. Refactoring your code
- 23.1. Renaming
- 23.2. Extracting and Inlining
- 23.3. Change a method’s signature
- 23.4. Move statement
- 23.5. Data flow analysis
- 23.6. Safe delete
- 23.7. Language level migration
- Chapter 24. Applying Inspections and intentions
- 24.1. Intentions
- 24.2. Notes on Specific Inspections
- Chapter 25. Formatting and arranging your code
- 25.1. Formatting whole or part of a file
- 25.2. Code Format Settings
- 25.3. Using Alt+Enter to see and change relevant code style settings
- 25.4. Using EditorConfig files
- 25.5. Reformat on commit
- 25.6. Rearranging code in your classes
- Chapter 26. Using multiple clipboards
- Chapter 27. Diving into debugging
- 27.1. Breakpoints
- 27.2. Seeing Program State
- 27.3. Remote debugging
- 27.4. Profiling
- Chapter 28. Expanding on testing
- 28.1. Test Coverage
- 28.2. Tips for navigation while testing
- 28.3. Testing Tools FAQ
- Chapter 29. Working with a build tool
- 29.1. Why do you need dependency management?
- 29.2. Importing a project that uses a build tool
- 29.3. The build tool window
- 29.4. Build tools FAQ
- 29.5. More info
- Chapter 30. Making version control work for you
- 30.1. Why Work with a Version Control System
- 30.2. The Commit Tool Window
- 30.3. The Git Tool Window
- 30.4. FAQ’s on Commit and Git Tool Window
- 30.5. How do I… delete my branch?
- 30.6. Your .gitignore file
- Chapter 31. Getting rescued by local history
- 32. Running commands in the terminal
- 32.1. Opening locations in the terminal
- 32.2. Opening URLs from your terminal
- 32.3. Running Commands
- Chapter 33. Managing your TODOs
- Chapter 34. Pairing with code with me
- 34.1. Using Code With Me
- 34.2. Tips for Code With Me
- Chapter 35. Working with plugins
- Chapter 36. Understanding Java in IntelliJ IDEA
- 36.1. Where do I configure the JVM for IntelliJ IDEA?
- 36.2. Where do I see the JVM settings for my project?
- 36.3. Troubleshooting JVM errors
- Chapter 37. Project Structure: Setting language versions and configuring your modules.
- 37.1. Project Structure: Project
- 37.2. Project Structure: Modules
- 37.3. Project Structure: Libraries
- 37.4. Project Structure: Facets
- 37.5. Project Structure: Artifacts
- 37.6. Sharing Project Structure Settings
- Chapter 38. Looking in your .idea folder
- 38.1.
.ideafolder contents
- 38.1.
- Chapter 39. Changing IntelliJ IDEA Settings
- 39.1. Preferences/Settings dialog
- 39.2. Preferences/Settings in the Search Everywhere dialog
- Chapter 40. Getting Help
- 40.1. Online Help
- 40.2. IntelliJ IDEA YouTube
- 40.3. IntelliJ IDEA Blog
- 40.4. IntelliJ IDEA Community Forums
- 40.5. StackOverflow
- 40.6. YouTrack
- Chapter 41. Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA Summary
- Appendix A: Background & History
- A.1. What are the differences between the Community and Ultimate versions?
- A.2. Who makes IntelliJ IDEA?
- Appendix B: Top keyboard shortcuts
- B.1. "Must Know" Shortcuts
- B.2. Coding
- B.3. Navigation
- B.4. Running and Debugging
- B.5. How do I configure my own shortcuts and abbreviations?
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