JetBrains IntelliJ / Goland / Rider Plugins

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Plugins I recommend

The following plugins help(ed) me in my daily work.

Language agnostic developer tools

• Commit Message Template - Button to load commit message template
• IntelliJ AsciiDoc Plugin - Support for the AsciiDoc markup language (and Antora).
• PlantUML Integration - Render plantuml code to graphics.
  • GitHub: esteinberg / plantuml4idea - Documentation and GitHub project.
  • Note: To configure the dot path, click the wrench 🔧 icon in the toolbar of the plantuml preview window and hselect Settings.
• Diagrams.net integration
• Base64 Helper - Encode/decode hex string, based on Base64 algorithm.
• Wrap to Column - Wraps text to the specified column width.

Coding Assistance

• GitHub Copilot - Suggestions for whole lines or entire functions right inside your editor.
  • JetBrains AI Assistance - Suggestions for whole lines or entire functions right inside your editor.
• Key Promoter X - Learn essential shortcuts while you are working.
• Presentation Assistant - Shows shortcuts you use to your audience so that they can learn.

Code Metrics

• Statistic - Shows files sorted by their extension along with size, line count LOC etc.
• CodeMetrics - Inlay indicators based on a customizable complexity calculation for Java files.
• MetricsReloaded - Lines of Code and file count metrics for all languages supported by your IDE and many more metrics for Java.

Java / JavaScript

• SonarLint - Find and fix bugs, vulnerabilities and code smells as you write code.
• Spring Initializr and Assistant - Assist in Spring application development.

Rider (C#)

• MoqComplete - Code completion for Moq.
• SpecFlow for Rider - Syntax highlighting, smart navigation and auto-completion for Gherkin files.
• Structured Logging - Hightlight log message templates and analyzers for them.

Support for languages not native to JetBrains IDEs

• NodeJS - Run, debug, profile Node.js applications and Mocha tests.
• Python - Smart editing for Python scripts - corresponds to PyCharm.

Plugins I would try out some time later

These Plugins are interesting, but I have not tried them yet.

• Lombok - First class support for Project Lombok.