How can I be more productive with IntelliJ?

IntelliJ IDEA Productivity Tips. Part 1

1. Use ^N (Alt + Insert) everywhere to create folders, classes or generate getters, test methods, etc.
2. Use ⇧⌘F12 (Ctrl + Shift + F12) to expand the editor and hide tool windows.
3. Always use ⇧⌘⏎ (Ctrl + Shift + Enter) to complete statement.

How do I speed up indexing in IntelliJ?

To speed up IntelliJ products, immediately open Settings -> Directories and exclude all unnecessary folders. Otherwise a crawler background process will indexes every file, and it consumes a lot of CPU and IO resources.

How can I improve my CLion performance?

To increase the IDE performance, try disabling the plugins you don’t need. You will always be able to turn them on again later. For example, if you are using a particular testing framework, consider disabling the plugins for other testing frameworks supported in CLion. Go to Settings/Preferences | Plugins.

How do I master in IntelliJ?

Convert microservices into modules

1. Prompt if a project is already loaded (File > Open Project)
2. Create a module from your project directory.
3. File > Settings > Version Control.
4. Version Control tool window (Log tab)
5. Commit content for code reviews.
6. Commit Changes window (don’t check Amend for the first reverted commit)

Is IntelliJ faster than Eclipse?

The more plugins installed in the IDE make it more heavy for your computer. However, Eclipse handles the large projects faster as compared to IntelliJ Idea because it indexes the entire project on start-up. But, when you are working on an existing project, IntelliJ Idea works faster and smoother as compared to Eclipse.

Can I run C++ in IntelliJ?

C/C++ are not officially supported in IntelliJ IDEA, but you can use CLion. See Manage plugins for details on how to manage plugins in IntelliJ IDEA.

How can I make my idea faster?

IDE and Project configuration

1. Disable all unnecessary plugins. Open the IDE’s Preferences/Settings → Plugins menu and make sure that you don’t have any plugins installed that you don’t use.
2. Increase memory for IntelliJ IDEA.
3. Exclude folders and Unload modules.
4. Disable on-the-fly import management.
5. Pause inspections check.

What is indexing in IDE?

Indexing examines the code of your project to create a virtual map of classes, methods, objects, and other code elements that make up your application. This is necessary to provide the coding assistance functionality, search, and navigation instantaneously. After indexing, the IDE is aware of your code.

How can I make PyCharm run faster?

To make PyCharm run fast:

1. Close apps in Task Manager or Activity Monitor to free up memory.
2. Disable apps that open automatically when you start your computer.
3. Clear out recycle bin.
4. Run a browser at a time with PyCharm.
5. Ensure few apps run with PyCharm.

How do I optimize PyCharm?

Here are my recommendations on making it work smoother.

1. You can’t really tweak PyCharm for performance balancing the power it provides.
2. Switch to a lighter Operating System.
3. Monitor other System processes. (
4. Disable unused plugins in PyCharm.
5. Modern browsers are memory hungry.
6. Upgrade your hardware. (

Is JetBrains good for students?

The people at Jetbrains are quite awesome for providing a free license for us students. Text completion, refactoring, extensive plugin support are some of the pretty good features. It hasn’t been sluggish on my machine and is in fact quick to perform some tasks that might otherwise be quite time consuming.

How can I improve the performance of my IDE?

You can enable Power saving mode from the File menu. This will disable many IDEAs background activities and file synchronization, which should give extra performance boost. Additionally, disabling files sync under Settings -> Appearance & Behavior -> System Settings -> Synchronization should improve the performance even further.

How can I improve the performance of IntelliJ IDEA on Windows?

Boosting IntelliJ IDEA Performance on Windows Systems — another quite old blog post explaining how to improve performance by optimizing the MFT tables, disk folder structure and Windows paging file. I’m not sure if this is applicable to newer SSD disks, but if you are using an HDD and Windows OS it might be worth a try.

How can I improve the performance of my plugins?

The number of active plugins can greatly affect performance when plugins are doing some activities. Same as with unused modules, a good rule of thumb is, if you don’t use it — disable it. You can enable Power saving mode from the File menu.