Useful Tools and IntelliJ Plugins#

We have created a list of some of our favourite plugins for IntelliJ which should hopefully help you as you complete your project.

IntelliJ Plugins#

All of these plugins are more easily installed by opening IntelliJ then selecting IntelliJ IDEA -> Preferences -> Plugins. Search the marketplace and install them directly into IntelliJ.

Name

Description

Rainbow Brackets

Colours brackets when coding to make them easier to distinguish.

One Dark theme

High contrast theme to make coding more pleasant.

PlantUML

Fully compliant with UML and makes creating UML graphs (domain models, use cases, etc) much easier. To learn more: click here.
You will first need to download GraphViz.

Key Promoter X

Helps you learn IntelliJ’s keyboard shortcuts so you can ditch the mouse when coding.

Javadoc

Javadoc is a documentation generator that makes code commenting far easier and comes natively bundled with IntelliJ. To learn how to use it, follow these instructions.

Tools#

Name

Description

GitKraken

GitHub comes natively bundled with IntelliJ but if you prefer to use a GUI, GitKraken is a good tool.