Verify startup time < 10 secondsĪfter configuration, quit IDEA, then time how long it takes for it to start up on your platform. Now all of your projects will be configured to use ECMAScript 6 by default. You should see the following:Ĭlick OK to save this change.

Then change the pull-down menu to display “ECMAScript 6”. Go to File / Other settings / Default Settings, and in the resulting dialog box, open up Languages and Frameworks and select Javascript. Make Ecmacript 6 the default version of Javascript I do not select “Show all soft wraps”, but that is a personal preference.Ĭlick OK to save your changes. Use soft wraps in console (under Console subarea).To enable this, under Preferences > Editor > General, select: “Soft wrap” allows you to resize your screen and still see all text, and eliminates the need for horizontal scrolling. You will now have a new code style called ics-se-code-style that conforms to our class code style conventions. Under Preferences > Editor > Code Style, click the “Manage” button, then “Import”, then select IntelliJ IDEA code style XML, then select the ics-se-code-style.xml file from your local file space and import it. Load the ICS SE Code Style preferencesĭownload the class code style preferences file from ics-se-code-style.xml.

Keep your IntelliJ installation minimal! 4. If you have additional plugins enabled, that isn’t necessarily bad, but it does mean your startup time will be slower without any real gain for this class. The only capabilities you need enabled are: Configuring IntelliJ for this class is mostly a matter of reducing the number of plugins that are loaded at startup in order to make sure IntelliJ comes up fast.

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