https://stackoverflow.com/a/43234019/11369236
I did those and now, when I remove a line of Java code, it automatically restarts debug.
But I do not want this.
When I change HTML, I have to refresh browser also (it does not restart ide, no need of course but I do not want to refresh tab). It does not refresh automatically. But this is not a big problem.
It only should restart HTML (or I can manually restart it) but not for Java or backend files. I could not see such an option.
When I disable "build automatically" (I use the latest version), I have to restart ide to see HTML changes on the browser.
I can not find a way out.
Related
As an daily IntelliJ user you usually concentrate on the projects you are working on and IntelliJ is just a tool. You are not willing to dig into tool's problem itself. But this is what is forced on you by default after IntelliJ installation on MacOS and opening relatively big project(most of the projects nowadays are huge and have thousands of files and use numbers of IntelliJ 3rd party plugins).
Here is a minimal list of actions. IntelliJ must have set MORE RAM to be used by default.
Read: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241085-Locating-IDE-log-files .
From IntelliJ open Help / Show log in Finder and open idea.log file with Console.app; In Console.app press "Reload" and "Now" buttons to track "live" what IntelliJ is doing.
If in logs of IntelliJ you find that some of the plugins exit with fatal error, you just uninstall those plugins. For me the one that failed to the moment of this answer was "BashSupport" as example.
Start Terminal.app ; Run command: open -a TextEdit /Applications/IntelliJ\ IDEA.app/Contents/bin/idea.vmoptions ; Change options in idea.vmoptions file to:
-Xms1024m
-Xmx2048m ; Read https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/tuning-the-ide.html to see how you can tune IntelliJ for your project. This step is handy when your IntelliJ app doesn't start at all and you want to change properties in a global way.
From IntelliJ open Help / Edit Custom Properties.... Here you can set same properties that will override global and will work only for current OS user.
Also there is also a possibility of underlying OS to do it voodoo magic so the IntelliJ won't work as it should like here - https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360000398280-IDEA-Ultimate-2018-2-Unable-to-save-settings-Unable-to-create-file-Windows-10
Make sure your project build output for *.class files is set. Read: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360000000584-Build-does-nothing . In my case when IntelliJ started project build it terminated without warnings shortly after.
Finally in my case none of 6 steps above solved the issue so I found this read: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000532044-IntelliJ-cannot-build-projects . Basically try reinstall IntelliJ from original distribution again.
I know that you must read https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea every time you install a new version of IntelliJ, but why not to add some consistency into configuration process of the main java process that runs IntelliJ itself? You can ask how much ram to use during installation of IntelliJ and explain why it is so. Then Help digging won't be necessary in the first place for devs who fed up with changing those default settings that will be always more than 700MB. I think for most devs out there it is at least 10x of that. I bet what makes most devs mad about this is not the fact that you need to do some options changing, but where those options are depending on OS plus the fact that you simply forget why IntelliJ app just exits while you are doing a debugging of your own app. I bet this problem makes us mad since first java based IDEs appeared. User-friendly is the key here and explicit reminders within the app itself would help.
As I am using eclipse and just set up a dropwizard server. On the command prompt I typed in java -jar target/hello-world-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar server hello-world.yml and is running. Yet when ever I make a change to my eclipse file, like changing the yml file for example it doesn't update. I have to crtl+c and re-run what I typed in above. My question is, is there a faster way of testing so that it updates every time I change something or I just have to deal with the testing. Thanks.
Run from within the IDE
Different Java IDEs permit more efficient workflows. For example, in an IDE you can run up your application using a Runtime Configuration that executes your Service.main() method with parameters of server hello-world.yml. This will save you endless Maven builds.
Unfortunately, with Eclipse the hot swapping of code changes is often cumbersome, so I would recommend that you consider Intellij which is more reliable when it comes to hot swapping code. Even then hot swapping can be risky.
Sometimes a restart is unavoidable
That being said, in your situation hot swapping won't help. You are changing the startup configuration file which is only read at startup. You will have to restart to see the changes unless you create your own dynamic-refresh-on-file-hash-change mechanism (not advised).
One alternative is to put much of your configuration testing in unit tests and verify that your code is responding as expected.
Static assets give an optimal workflow (no restarts)
You may encounter a situation where you only want to change static assets (like JavaScript files) in which case Intellij will allow you to simply recompile on the fly and will copy the changed assets into the /target directory and have them immediately picked up by Dropwizard without a restart.
If you wanted to go one step further you could enlist the services of Grunt.js so that it continuously monitored the src/main/resources/assets (or similar) for changes and then automatically update your /target for you. Again, Intellij will autosave on focus change so this would lead to an optimal workflow where you change the asset, wait one second, refresh browser and see the immediate result.
I wrote a lengthy blog article covering Dropwizard and Ember Data a while ago if you want more details on this approach (and single page web application development in general).
I have been working on firefox add-ons for quite a long time and its been a real headache to use notpad++ for development. Is there any suitable IDE or plug-in for eclipse available.And just like we do **Run on Server" for dynamic web-projects,Is there any way that, I do a change in any of the sorce file and it automatically creates the .xpi file and installs in firefox?
There are a lot of editors or IDEs that could be easily integrated with the SDK to perform basic tasks like running cfx run or cfx xpi. Here's the system that I use:
I have Wladimir Palant's 'Extension Auto Installer' installed in Firefox
I have a script like this in the add-on's root directory:
#!/bin/bash
/path/to/cfx xpi && wget --post-file=filename.xpi http://127.0.0.1:8888/
Every time I want to test the add-on, I just run the script and the xpi is built and installed into Firefox. Most editors will have some capability to bind a shel command like this to a keybinding.
You don't really need IDE to create XPI every time you make a change.
Create a folder with your addon's source code (e.g.
C://addons/myaddon/).
Put a file containing this path to the folder
containing your Firefox addons and call it the same as your addon ID
(e.g. myaddon#domain.com).
In your install.rdf file, add this line: <em:unpack>true</em:unpack>
This way you can just restart the Firefox whenever you want to see the changes. I recommend this addon, it adds a keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+R for quick restart of Firefox (be sure to get the 0.6b2 version, previous versions don't support the keyboard shortcut):
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/121516/restart_firefox-0.6b2-fx.xpi?src=dp-btn-devchannel
Also, you will not loose your source code in case you uninstall your addon while testing (this happens when you develop directly in your Firefox addons folder).
As of IDE, for me personally any editor with syntax highlight for XML and JS works just fine. My personal favorites are Aptana (Eclipse based IDE) and Intype (lightweight and extremely fast).
I want to work on intelliJ on my webapps and I don't know how to hot swap code while working.
For example while I was working in Eclipse when I edited jsp files Eclipse automatically, instantly swapped the file so when I refreshed the page my changes were there
When I change class code in Eclipse it worked a bit longer because he republished the app but did it automatically and instantly.
I saw that intelliJ in the runtime configuration has an option 'how class swap'. I did check it but nothing is happening. I had tried compile, make, save and everything else and nothing is happening. I had to reload the app and I had to do dis manually. Secondly intelliJ reloads EVERY application in my webapp directory. I have them a lot so it taking ages. how can I turn on hot swap?
Hotswap only works in debug mode. So you need to connect to your webserver through a debug configuration. Then, after compile either the project or at least the class with the modifications, IntelliJ tries to hotswap that class.
This only works for minor changes. For example, creating new methods on the fly is not possible using this way.
Hotswap works with exploded artifacts on Update action. If it doesn't work with your project, contact support for help and provide the project to reproduce it.
I'm using jettyRun for running my simple spring application. I wanted to enable hot swapping with Intellij debuger, but looks like jetty doesn't catch the changes.
On http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRADLE/Gradle+Jetty+Plugin I seen that it should work with:
jettyRun.scanIntervalSeconds=1
On the other hand, there is some inconsistency. On the gradle homepage this parameter is not listed: http://www.gradle.org/jetty_plugin. Anyway, is there any way to enable this on gradle?
Heh, actually found it myself now.
Looks like this parameter is not needed at all. Hot deploy works anyway.
I just wasn't able to seen that because my vaadin application was keeping session even after F5. To restart it properly it's enough to add ?debug&restartApplication to the application url.
So, Ctrl+Shift+F9 in IntelliJ + F5 in the browser (with ?debug&restartApplication) works fine ;)