An IntellJ IDEA plugin to run a dev server for serving local web files, shadowing resources from an existing web server.
- IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3 (or latest) IDE, running on Java 11 (or latest) runtime.
Install from tha zip package in the latest release.
This plugin makes it easier to edit and debug web resources from a web server, inside the IDE, while being able to preview the results in a browser. It is easy and quick to overlay some local web files over a deployed server and preview how the changes would look when deployed, as rest of the calls are forwarded to same web server.
It does so by runs a local server that overlays (shadow) local files over some (or all) files coming from a source web server.
In above scenario, scripts/app.js is being edited and served locally, and previewed with other files from a remote
server.
The plugin adds a run configuration of type Shadow Serve. The configuration options are as follows:
Local Server Port- The local port on which shadow server will run.Origin Web URL- The URL of remote or local server that serves all other files not replaced by local files.Shadow Path- The path on origin web server, that is to be shadowed. All requests starting with this path, will cause files to be looked up from local project.Local Root Directory- The parent directory under which shadowed files will be searched.
After starting the run configuration, open browser at http://localhost:<local-port> to preview web results.
To not only serve but also debug Javascript, the above run configuration can be added as a pre-task to the JS Debugger run configuration available in IDE.