Idea - Plugin Development

About

How to develop IDEA plugin.

Plugin Type

The most common types of plugins include:

• Custom language support (File type recognition, Lexical analysis, Syntax highlighting, Formatting, Code insight and code completion, Inspections and quick-fixes, Intention actions)
• Framework integration (Example: Struts)
• Third-party Tool integration (manipulate third-party tools and components directly from the IDE without switching contexts.)
• User interface add-ons (Apply various changes to the standard user interface of the IDE)

API

• Idea Plugin Dev - Component: a plugin is made of one of several component.
• Action: adding new items to the menus and toolbars.
• Service: only one instance of a service is loaded even though the service is called several times.
• Idea Plugin Dev - File and File System (Virtual)
• Idea Plugin dev - PSI File (Program Structure Interface - Tree Structured Content)

Documentation

There is two levels of documentation:

• Basic: Getting Started
• Advanced: Architecture Reference

Forum

• Open API and Plugin Development forums

To continue

• To continue Quick Start Guide
• https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/custom-language-support-tutorial.html