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Aleksei Zhebel

Writing tech docs

Developers and other users of JetBrains IDEs have been using the integrated Markdown support for a long time. It is great for editing your project’s README.md file, as well as any documentation that comes with the source code, or even your static web site sourced in Markdown. You can also use Markdo…

There are lots of features in IntelliJ IDEA that can help you to focus and maximize your productivity. A big factor in helping your productivity can come from how the UI and, more importantly, your code are presented to you. There are many scenarios: reading and analyzing code to understand somethi…

Spring Boot is great for developing web services. A request handler (for example, a REST controller) is where you define methods that handle requests to specific endpoints. To test those requests, you could use an external tool, but with IntelliJ IDEA, you don’t need to leave your IDE. The integrate…

IntelliJ IDEA integrates with many different tools used for software development. Most of these tools run in the system shell under the hood. Sometimes you don’t even realize that instead of running a command in the integrated terminal and reading console output, you can use the relevant IDE feature…

Spellchecking is a pretty standard feature in most of today’s IDEs because it can be really helpful to catch typos in your code in the natural language constructs, such as variable names, strings, comments, and so on. Not so long ago, we introduced Grazie, a built-in grammar and style checker. Grazi…

IntelliJ IDEA includes a number of features to improve the readability of the source code, such as various code style settings and color schemes for proper highlighting. But writing source code is not the only activity when creating software. It involves using various tools that need to be at hand w…

Development is not all about programming languages. A lot of text in your code is for humans, not the compiler: string literals, comments, Javadocs, commit messages, and much more requires at least some knowledge of English or other natural languages, depending on your team and users. So isn't it gr…

As you are developing your awesome software, you probably need to create a bunch of run/debug configurations, including some for application servers. You also might need several Docker containers to test your code in various environments, maybe a container with a database as your backend, and a cons…

The Docker integration enables you to build or pull Docker images and run Docker containers directly from IntelliJ IDEA. You can use special run configurations to run your application in a Docker container and see how it will behave in an environment identical to production. But what about debugging…

The JetBrains Blog

Aleksei Zhebel

Some README.md Love: Markdown Support Improvements

Find Your Visual Zen

How to use HTTP Client in IntelliJ IDEA for Spring Boot RESTful Web Services

Run IDE Features From the Terminal

New Spellchecker Implementation in IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2

UI Secrets: Customize the Appearance of IntelliJ IDEA

Meet Grazie: the ultimate spelling, grammar, and style checker for IntelliJ IDEA

Services tool window: One place to rule them all

Debug your Java applications in Docker using IntelliJ IDEA