Run build tools in Intellij?

[zepumph]

@samreid and I came across a way that we could use Intellij's Exteneral Tools to run the the build tools through intellij. We discovered this as we were implementing #586 (comment) for a windows user. We found a solution is to just run grunt via the Node executable. This provides the flexibility to run any node script we want, cross platform. This could help to streamline the project in a single program.

So far I don't see any strong pros that are drawing me to this solution, just that it would be nice to have all tools in the same place.

Cons would be that there are some people that don't use Intellij, this might widen that gap (like the codestyle autoformat).

Marking for dev meeting to gauge interest, and to see if it is worth a developer spending some hours investigating/implementing this.

[samreid]

IDEA claims to have grunt interoperability: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/grunt-tool-window.html

I haven't tested it

[zepumph]

I just looked at it, it worked right off the bat. (Windows) I right clicked any grunt file (for me faraday's law) and I chose "Show Grunt Tasks". It displayed a list of all of our grunt tasks, and double clicking on any of them ran it successfully. I would say that was a positive test, and that more could probably be done to make it easier to run. Thanks @samreid!

[samreid]

@zepumph can this issue be closed?