Intellij Idea Community (Open Source) Edition + intellij-elm

[nelsonic]

While we have traditionally resisted using IDEs for our coding, because they tend to be
We are always on the lookout for a more seamless development experience.

The latest Elmtown podcast https://elmtown.simplecast.fm/it-just-goes-on-and-on

Touched upon the power Intellij for refactoring and inline function signature hints ...
This could be worth investigating for larger Elm Apps.

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download the Community Edition is Open Source and Free:

The Elm language plugin looks really good! It gives code error warnings in-line without having to run the compiler, this could be a significant boost to coding speed.

• Site: https://klazuka.github.io/intellij-elm
• Repo: https://github.com/klazuka/intellij-elm

Question is: will it consume as much Disk/RAM as Atom? #23 🤔

is anyone @dwyl using this combo for writing Elm code?
can you share some feedback?

[nelsonic]

After watching @klazuka's two videos on the intellij-elm plugin:

• intellij-elm tour 2019: https://youtu.be/CC2TdNuZztI
• Elm plugin for IntelliJ Demo - 2019: https://youtu.be/w0lym7-G2lU
  I'm convinced that this can offer a substantial boost to developer effectiveness.
  Downloaded the community edition.

This app isn't small ... 1.1GB! 😮

Of course you want to send me notifications ...

Allowing for now, will disable if it gets annoying.

Do not import settings (want the perspective of a complete beginner):

Czech Republic ... 🇨🇿 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic

Obvs don't sent usage stats. I don't want my editor phoning home ...

Dark mode:

Disable everything related to Java development:

That's the reason why the app is 1.1GB!

Without plugins:

The editor recognises that there is a plugin available for the file extension:

After restart:

Looking good.

I'm going to try using the editor for all of next week. 🤞

[nelsonic]

elm-format on save: https://github.com/avh4/elm-format#jetbrains-installation

Also added elm-test: https://github.com/elm-explorations/test

npm install -g elm-test