10. April 2014

PowerShell in Terminal of IntelliJ Idea

IntelliJ Idea has neat feature – Terminal Window.

Unfortunately on Windows it’s set just to old school cmd. Good news is that it’s possible to change it to something better. E.g. PowerShell.

Go to project settings, type “terminal”. Change value in Shell path to powershell.exe.

intellij-idea-powershell

Then you can invoke Terminal:

idea-terminal

Note: If you’re using 32bit version of Idea then it will open 32bit version of PowerShell. This is important when you want to change Set-ExecutionPolicy. 32bit and 64bit PowerShell have two different settings.

6. January 2014

IntelliJ Idea – Cordova – Default Activity not found! – solution

Situation: import Cordova project with support of Android platform to Intellij Idea. You’re not able to start emulator, because of strange error:

Default Activity not found!

cordova-error-activity-not-found

One solution could be: go to File menu and choose Invalidate Caches /Restart.

This might not help.

The real problem is most likely in configuration of Android module. Open project configuration, select module and make sure that directory src is marked as Source.

cordova-error-add-sources

Confirm module configuration and error message should disappear.

12. August 2013

IntelliJ Idea support for Bash scripting

Unix users write scripts in their favorite editor. That’s ok, but when you have bigger project then power of IDE could help you. E.g. when editing project based on mix of Python, Bash and Java.

There is very useful plugin for IDEA known as BashSupport.

It will give you syntax highlight, code hinting and CTRL+Click is working the same way like in other programming languages. Very handy.

Here is example:

idea-bash-support

How to install this plugin?

File -> Settings. Search for word Plugins. Click Browse repository. Type BashSupport to search field. Right click on plugin name and choose install. restart Idea.

idea-plugin-installation

Enjoy :-)

Note: This plugin works also on Windows, you need to configure just path to bash (e.g. Bash from Cygwin).

2. February 2013

IntelliJ Idea must have plugin – Key promoter

Reading through document with keyboard shortcuts for IDE is boring and often you do not have time to learn it.

Dmitry Kashin wrote simple yet powerfull plugin for IntelliJ Idea – Key Promoter.

It simply displays keyboard shortcuts whenever it is possible to speed up your work.

keypromoter

26. October 2012

IntelliJ Idea – How to create Node.js project with Express support

Idea has support for Node.js. It’s quite easy to setup new project.

First of all install Node.js and  Node.js plugin.

Create new project from scratch.

Select module type: Web Module

Select Web Module Type: Node.js Express App

Create Run Configuration for app.js

Run :-)

 

Application is available at http://localhost:3000