When it comes to productivity, what counts is reliable and smart support from your IDE for the frameworks in your project. IntelliJ IDEA’s support for Groovy, Grails and Spring has been going strong for the last few years, expanding and refining its features with each new release.
Let’s explore the most tricky features of the IDE that help developers to be more productive.
10. Kay, give the kid a weapon
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11. I just did my first refactoring. Wow!
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12. That’s what I call Smart completion!
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13. Oh my god, I can undo refactorings, too!
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14. How did I live without Syntax-aware
selection before?
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15. Refactoring works even without any
selection!
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16. I can create stuff without touching the
mouse
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17. Did you know that you get more results if you
press code completion twice?
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18. Why didn’t anyone tell me about the File
structure popup??
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19. Did you see that? It shows recently edited
files!
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20. Have you ever tried navigating between a
class and its test with just a shortcut?
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21. Look, ma, no mouse!
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22. Structural search and replace is what
makes you feel powerful
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If you can keep it under
control!
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23. I can do dependency and data flow
analysis
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24. The column selection mode makes me
feel like a ninja!
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Don't tell anyone it provides
code completion as well
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25. I use IntelliJ IDEA’s early preview builds
for my work
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26. This is that feeling when you run
IntelliJ IDEA from inside IntelliJ IDEA
I have just forked IntelliJ IDEA on
GitHub
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27. I have just fixed my first issue by
myself instead of reporting it
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28. Oh my god, there are two more features
didn’t know. Jesus!
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