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Introduction

IntelliJ Platform

  • IntelliJ Platform is an Open Source platform by JetBrains
    • IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, PhpStorm, ...
  • Built on Java
  • cross-platform
  • component-driven (everything is a plugin)

Products built on the IntelliJ Platform are extensible applications A lot of the existing functionality in the IntelliJ Platform is written as plugins that can be included or excluded depending on the needs of the end product

The most common types of plugins

Custom Language Support

Custom language support provides basic functionality for working with a particular programming language

  • Syntax highlighting
  • Formatting
  • Code completion
  • Inspections and quick-fixes

More: Custom Language Support Tutorial

Framework Integration

Framework integration consists of improved code insight features which are typical for a given framework

Tool Integration

Tool integration makes it possible to manipulate third-party tools and components directly from the IDE without switching contexts

  • Implementation of additional actions or UI components
  • Access to external resources (eg Jira)

Example: gerrit-plugin

Other

Editor enhancement

Improvements of the editor itself

Example: VimPlugin

User Interface Add-Ons

Plugins in this category apply various changes to the standard user interface of the IDE.

Example: Intellij-IDEA-Plugin-Background-Image

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