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The Revamping Plugins series is about sharing the experience of updating outdated plugins to align with the latest IntelliJ Platform SDK guidelines.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 of your choice is not just about developing killer features to help others in their day-to-day work

Today Dror Weiss, Codota CEO, joins us to talk about the Codota and Tabnine plugins for IntelliJ IDEA and other JetBrains IDEs.

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 The plugins that we’re working on can sometimes become outdated, and to catch up with all the changes required to

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 Points available in public GitHub repositories. Backstory When working on IntelliJ Platform plugins as

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 for planning, developing, and deploying plugins with the IntelliJ Platform SDK, IntelliJ Platform P

As you may already know, Apple deprecated the OpenGL rendering library in macOS Mojave and provided the Metal framework as a replacement. Metal better reflects the shift in CPU/GPU performance that has happened over the last 20 years. So, with proper implementation, apps that are based on Metal perform better and consume less energy than the old OpenGL ones. What does this mean for our products? O

Plugin Repository

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 GitHub Actions that take care of plugin quality and deployment. Learn more here: IntelliJ Platform P

We have implemented a plugin-signing mechanism and are going to introduce it step by step.

Just over a year ago, we announced the launch of paid plugins on the JetBrains Marketplace. Today we want to highlight some of the major updates we’ve made to paid plugin functionality on the Marketplace and in our IDEs during the first year of the Marketplace’s operation.

TL;DR We are going to use organizations in search instead of the vendor field from the plugin descriptor. Several weeks ago we introduced Organizations. One of the reasons we implemented them was to simplify plugin search for end users. From now on, we are going to use organizations in the search index instead of the vendor field from the plugin descriptor. (more…)

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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 overview of the changes and offer some insight into the reasons behind them. There are several problems wi

Today we are speaking with Scott McKinny of Manifold Systems (scott@manifold.systems,) the author of the Manifold plugin for IntelliJ Platform-based IDEs. As a Java compiler plugin, Manifold adds new capabilities directly and seamlessly to the Java language such as type-safe metaprogramming, extension methods, operator overloading, and more. Welcome to the JetBrains Platform Blog, Scott. Before we

The recording of our January 16 webinar, How We Built Comma, the Raku IDE, on the IntelliJ Platform featuring Jonathan Worthington, is now available. Subscribe to our community newsletter to receive notifications about future webinars. This webinar tells the story of how Edument built an IDE for the Raku programming language using the IntelliJ Platform. Building an IDE from scratch would have b

We would like you to be informed that the login/password authentication method previously available in the https://plugins.jetbrains.com API has been replaced with token-based authentication. This will help improve the security of your plugins. We ask that you switch to the new auth method as soon as possible. The JetBrains Hub authentication policies have changed as we’ve introduced mandatory