I Just wanted to know really quickly why the IntelliJ File Watchers take command line programs rather than allowing me to use the Run Configurations?
I have my build chain nicely configured through the run configurations and I want to use the File Watchers to rerun certain parts of it when I modify certain source files.
Note that I could achieve this using Grunt which I already am using for this project, but I'd like to try using the file watchers.
Anyone know why this is so and how I can work around this?
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What I wanna achieve ?
When any .php file is saved, it checks the file and checks for unused use statements.
How can I parse or somehow get the list of unused use statements in the file without custom code analysis ? The PHPStorm does it with the php plugin. Can I get it from it? The documentation is realy bad and I was not able to find anything.
I have the php plugin dependency in my plugin.xml
<depends>com.jetbrains.php</depends>
It would be great if i could parse the whole php file and access information about use statements, fucntions, classes etc.
We have a script "build": "rollup -c rollup.js --environment production", which when called by some of our team (who use Windows) will on occasion spontaneously not run as normal, but instead just open up the rollup.js config file in an editor. Unfortunately I don't really know where to start with this because I've never been able to replicate it. No logfile is being produced and as far as I've been told ignore-scripts is not set, which are the only other things I've seen related to this behaviour on SO.
Is this a known thing that there's a simple fix for? Or if not, where should I go to find more info about this? Would this be an issue with npm, or with rollup?
I encunter the same sutiation on Windows.
I bypass it by using WSL.
Through some investigating I've tracked this down to what I believe to be a rollup bug with regards to how they're processing their config files. I feel as though I should open a ticket with them regarding this but I've been acting on behalf of a team member and don't have the ability to replicate it on my own, so... I suppose I'll try and coerce them into doing it.
But anyways, so from what I can tell looking at rollup's source, if a rollup config file has a plain .js extension, then it looks as though rollup is running itself on the config to convert it into a CommonJS format, which it will then import and use on the actual build step. Somewhere in this process on Windows something goes awry and the result is that the config file just ends up getting opened with whatever the default handler is for JS files. So basically the solution is to change the file extension.
Our original config was set up using ES6 import/export, and I'm unclear at this point whether changing the extension to .mjs will skip or otherwise change this conversion step, it seems to have worked as such when people have tried it but I can't vouch for it. What I did was to instead go through the config and manually convert all the ES6 import/exports to CommonJS require() and then change the file extension to .cjs (hence our config changed from rollup.js to rollup.cjs) and now it appears to be working consistently across the board.
I'm developing a JavaScript/React application in Intellij Idea and I'm using webpack-dev-server to incrementally build my files. That means that the dev server is watching the files and if a file gets changes, webpack rebuilds it. Pretty standard scenario.
Unfortunately, webpack sometimes decides to ignore certain files. I can change them all I want but webpack does nothing. I have not been able to determine any pattern on which files get ignored. It's arbitrary. Sometimes I just create a new file and webpack ignores it.
What is interesting though is that it only happens when I perform the save using Intellij Idea. If I open the file in another editor (for example vim) and save it, the file gets correctly rebuilt. Actually, simple touch file.js is enough to trigger rebuilding.
I guess there is something wrong in how Intellij Idea saves files. Any ideas?
This is due to an IDE feature known as "safe write". When enabled, the IDE will write the changes to a temporary file over the real one. This means webpack's file watching mechanism cannot pick up the changes. Disable this feature to fix the problem. Reference.
For me this did not work, I'm posting this in case anyone has the same scenario. After each save, webpack watch script builds the new bundles and I'm reloading all files from disk (CTRL + ALT + Y). Only after that the changes are visible.
There is an open issue "Background" changes by external tool not being picked up until VFS refresh happens regarding this behavior: file is saved but one has to reload all from disk in order to see the changes (for example in the browser).
I use automatic deploy through FTP. Everything worked well until I started to use coffeescript and its filewatcher feature which recompiles my .coffee file into .js file on every change.
Problem is that IDEA don't want to upload these compiled files like others. So I have manually press hotkey to upload compiled file after every change, which I want to see on the server.
How can I do it more convenient to use?
There is an option to upload external changes automatically.
Right now IDEA will not perform synchronization after file watcher is invoked, so you will need to do File | Synchronize, IDE will detect the changes and upload them.
Next update will have an option for the file watcher to perform synchronization after execution as the result of addressing this feature request.
this feature request concerns to a possibility to synchronize all files in output directory on every change (required by some transpilers). But, AFAIK, this is not the case for CoffeeScript compiler - synchronization should work there. Do the generated js files appear in the Project View as soon as the compilation completes, or do you have to synchronize the view manually to see changes? In the latter case something must be wrong with file watcher configuration (output path set incorrectly, for example). If files are synchronized correctly, setting 'upload external changes' option should do the thing
I'd like to save my run configurations in a custom location.
Is this possible or does everthing have to be stored in .idea/runConfigurations - I can't seem to find a Save As option?
I'm using version 12 EAP.
Thanks.
If you save it somewhere else, intellij won't pick it up and it would be redundant.
You could add the file to your source control system in its normal location.