IntelliJ IDEA Essentials -- Table of Contents -- IntelliJ IDEA Essentials -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this books covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Get to Know Your IDE, Fast -- Comparing the various editions -- Installing IntelliJ IDEA -- An overview of the workspace -- Tool windows -- View modes in tool windows -- Pinned Mode -- Docked Mode -- Floating Mode -- Split Mode -- Multiple views in tool windows -- Navigating inside the tool window -- Tool windows set up for a specific project -- Editor tabs -- Crafting your settings -- Searching for options -- Setting keyboard shortcuts -- Colors and fonts -- Picking your plugins -- Configuration tips and tricks -- Exporting and importing settings -- Sharing settings -- Tuning IntelliJ IDEA -- Summary -- 2. Off We Go - To the Code -- What is a project? -- Project structure and configuration -- Comparison of Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA terminologies -- The project -- Modules -- Folders -- Libraries -- Facets -- Artifacts -- Creating a project -- Creating a new project from scratch -- Importing the existing project -- Project format -- The directory-based format -- The file-based format -- The directory-based format versus the file-based format -- Summary -- 3. The Editor -- An overview of the editor and setup -- The gutter area -- The Status bar -- Tabs -- Scratches -- Scrollbar -- Navigating in the editor -- Navigating between files -- Navigating within a single file -- The Search Everywhere feature -- The editor basics -- Searching for and replacing text -- Syntax-aware selection.

Column selection mode -- Clipboard history -- Reformatting the code -- Code completion -- Language injection -- Generating code -- Code inspection -- Using Live Templates -- Postfix code completion -- Comparing files and folders -- Comparing files -- Comparing folders -- Looking for help -- Viewing inline documentation -- Viewing type definitions -- Looking for usages -- Viewing method parameters -- Viewing the external documentation -- Summary -- 4. Make It Better - Refactoring -- An overview of refactoring -- Refactoring actions -- Rename -- Find and Replace Code Duplicates -- Copy -- Move -- Move Instance Method -- Safe Delete -- Change Signature -- Type Migration -- Make Static -- Convert to Instance Method -- Extract refactorings -- Extract Variable -- Extract Constant -- Extract Field -- Extract Parameter -- Introduce Parameter Object -- Extract Method -- The Extract Method object -- Delegate -- Extract Interface -- Extract Superclass -- Inline -- Remove Middleman -- Wrap Return Value -- Invert Boolean -- Pull Members Up or Push Members Down -- Replace Inheritance With Delegation -- Convert Anonymous Class to Inner -- Encapsulate Fields -- Replace Constructor with Factory Method / Builder -- Generify -- Summary -- 5. Make It Happen - Running Your Project -- A temporary configuration -- The permanent configuration -- The Run/Debug configuration for a Java application -- Creating a Tomcat server local configuration -- The Node.js configuration -- Configuration defaults -- Sharing the configuration -- Running -- Summary -- 6. Building Your Project -- Editing Maven settings -- The Maven tool window -- Running Maven goals -- Using Gradle -- Executing Gradle tasks -- Summary -- 7. Red or Green? Test Your Code -- Enabling the testing plugins -- Creating the test -- Creating a run/debug configuration for the test -- Running or debugging the test.

Keyboard shortcuts -- Summary -- 8. Squash'em - The Debugger -- Debugger settings -- Setting up the JavaScript debugger -- Managing breakpoints -- Starting the debugger -- The Debug tool window -- Inspecting variables and evaluating expressions -- Debugger actions -- Keyboard shortcuts summary -- Summary -- 9. Working with Your Team -- Enabling version control -- Checking out the project from the repository -- Configuring version control -- Working with version control -- Changelists -- Adding files to version control -- Committing files -- Getting changes from the repository -- Browsing the changes -- Reverting the local changes -- Using the difference viewer -- Displaying the history -- The log viewer -- Quickly executing VCS actions -- Keyboard shortcuts -- Summary -- 10. Not Enough? Extend It -- Setting up the environment and project -- Developing the plugin functionality -- Deploying and publishing -- Summary -- Index.