Название: Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA : Level up your IntelliJ IDEA knowledge so that you can focus on doing what you do best
Автор: Trisha Gee, Helen Scott
Издательство: Leanpub
Год: 2022-11-06
Страниц: 380
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 129.4 MB

If we treat our IDE as a text editor, we are doing ourselves a disservice. Using a combination of tutorials and a questions-and-answers approach, Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA will help you find ways to use IntelliJ IDEA that enable you to work comfortably and productively as a professional developer.

We’re frequently taught to use a text editor when we’re learning to write code so that we understand the fundamentals. However, if we treat our IDE as a text editor, we are doing ourselves a disservice. As professional developers, we no longer need to learn the fundamentals; we need to deliver working applications. We can use the features of an IDE to help us with this.

This book contains decades of experience with IntelliJ IDEA all squished into the smallest number of pages possible. We respect your time, which is why we’ve been very precise on what to share and, almost more importantly, what not to share. Our plan is to get you up and running in IntelliJ IDEA and being productive as soon as possible by learning from our experiences. Throughout the book we will share a bunch of cool tips and tricks that will help you to level up your use of IntelliJ IDEA.

Parts II and III contain tutorials. We have limited these to use cases that point you to the key features that are useful in a wide range of scenarios. Part IV covers specific areas of IntelliJ IDEA, and uses a questions-and-answer approach to cover the key use cases where you would need these features.

IntelliJ IDEA is an extremely fully-featured IDE that can help professional developers with almost any task they need to perform, and this can be overwhelming to get to grips with. Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA uses two approaches to help newcomers and experienced users alike:

Tutorials that walk through writing code and developing applications that show when, why and how to use IntelliJ IDEA features to create working applications.
A questions-and-answers approach that demonstrates which features can be used to solve the problems that professional developers face.
Seeing how to use IntelliJ IDEA from these different angles not only showcases the most useful features but also teaches multiple approaches for using these features. No matter which technologies you use or how you like to work, reading this book will help you find an approach that enables you to work comfortably and productively with IntelliJ IDEA.

If you are new to IntelliJ IDEA, we recommend you start at the beginning and work through the book in order. We’ve laid the contents out in the order you’re likely to need it when you’re setting up IntelliJ IDEA and then creating your first project.
If you’ve used IntelliJ IDEA before, we encourage you to dip into the chapters you need when you need them. While many of the chapters do build on concepts introduced earlier in the book, each chapter covers an individual area which should stand alone. Our goal is for you to be able to read a single chapter that covers something you want to understand better.

This book is for developers using IntelliJ IDEA, whether you’re just beginning or have been using it for a while. If you’re just beginning with IntelliJ IDEA, we’ll take you on the journey of learning the tool quickly and efficiently to help you be as productive as possible. If you’ve been using IntelliJ IDEA a while, then we’ll help you expand your horizons and show you some cool tricks which will improve your productivity. At the top level, this book is primarily aimed at Java developers who use, or want to use, IntelliJ IDEA, but anyone who uses an IntelliJ Platform IDE (for example, Webstorm, PyCharm, Rider) should pick up plenty of tips.