IntelliJ IDEA Tips & Tricks
summary
Toolbox app manages IDE installs and can bump RAM (demo adds 16 GB); Presentation Assistant plugin shows live shortcuts; namespace filtering and double shift speed jump-to-type/symbol navigation; smart completion and postfix/live templates generate code with fewer keystrokes; language injection edits JSON, regex and SQL fragments with highlighting and validation; Structural Search + Inspections finds bad exception handling and replaces it automatically; .http files run REST snippets; dependency search adds libraries to Gradle with versions, GitHub forks and StackOverflow metrics.
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chapters (30)
- 0:00Start
- 2:18add another 16 gigabytes
- 2:54show multiple keyboard mappings
- 4:41navigate to the different folders
- 5:41use namespace filtering
- 5:54use type filtering
- 7:52the tool bar
- 8:30show me all of the plugins
- 9:02update the plugins
- 9:58show you the recently edited files
- 11:26show you some things around coding assistance
- 12:20open and close all of the windows
- 13:48navigating through your different files
- 14:21assign a keyboard shortcut
- 14:46create a folder in that specific location
- 15:28navigate from the keyboard
- 19:48talking about strings
- 20:05edit the json fragment
- 20:49write a regular expression
- 21:39validate email
- 24:48bring up the refactoring menu
- 25:44place your cursor at the beginning or somewhere after the semicolon
- 26:36extract it to a functional parameter
- 28:08write a plug-in
- 29:39click on the edit filters
- 30:50switch off the inspection
- 32:37concatenate your strings and your query strings in strings
- 33:50indexing of the log
- 34:05create multiple log windows
- 34:40add it to your gradle project








