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Jakub Chrzanowski

Jakub Chrzanowski is a Developer Advocate specializing in the IntelliJ Platform and IDE extensibility, and he leads JetBrains’ Platform Advocacy team. With a background in full-stack web development, he’s been building software since the early 2000s. A longtime third-party plugin developer, Jakub still creates JetBrains IDE plugins in his spare time—bringing a hands-on builder’s perspective to everything he shares with the community. Follow Jakub on [X](https://x.com/hszanowski), [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/chrzanowski.info), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@hszanowski), and [Twitch](https://www.twitch.tv/hszanowski) for updates, talks, livestreams, and practical tips on plugins and developer tooling.

The Revamping Plugins series is about sharing the experience of updating outdated plugins to align with the latest IntelliJ Platform SDK guidelines. We hope this series will help you understand the process of doing this and the tools JetBrains provide to make it easier. Creating plugins for the IDE …

We’ve brought a brand new feature to JetBrains Marketplace – Plugin Ideas! It’s a place for sharing ideas for plugins and functionality missing from IntelliJ-based IDEs. If you like any of the ideas you can cast your vote on them to help them get the attention of plugin developers and even add your …

The IntelliJ Platform SDK changes dynamically, and each major release of JetBrains IDEs fixes bugs, adds new features, or introduces breaking changes in the SDK. Because of that, it’s essential to keep track of the Known Breaking Changes list in the IntelliJ Platform SDK Documentation. The plugins t…

The project we've been working on this year together with the Marketplace team is finally ready for the first public release! IntelliJ Platform Explorer is a web tool integrated within the Marketplace platform. It helps IntelliJ Platform plugin developers examine implementations of the Extension Poi…

Live Webinar: Busy Plugin Developer. Episode 0

Want to create a plugin for IntelliJ Platform but tired of reading the documentation? Join our webinar on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 17:00 CET / 16:00 UTC / 11:00 EST for all the information you need to get started writing plugins. We will be covering: IntelliJ Platform SDK, Useful resources…

The upcoming 2020.3 releases will include internal changes related to a significant redesign of the representation of project models in the IntelliJ Platform. This shouldn’t affect any plugins using the IntelliJ API properly and which don’t access internal classes. However, we want to give an overvi…

IntelliJ Platform Plugin Template IntelliJ Platform Plugin Template, our GitHub-based repository, provides a pure boilerplate to make it easier to create a new plugin project. It delivers curated solutions for handling the changelog and supporting Kotlin and Java sources, and provides preconfigured …

After half a year of fruitful work since the first Package Search announcement, we are pleased to share another dose of information about this project. The current release introduces various plugin updates, a brand new website search application, and backend enhancements. Let's begin with the most v…

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Jakub Chrzanowski

Revamping Plugins #2 – IDEA Feature Suggester

Plugin Ideas – Now Available on JetBrains Marketplace

Revamping Plugins #1 – .ignore

IntelliJ Platform Explorer – Get to the Extension Point

Live Webinar: Busy Plugin Developer. Episode 0

New Implementation of Project Model Interfaces in 2020.3

The Busy Plugin Developer’s Newsletter – Fall 2020

Package Search on the Web