Intellij Idea Community (Open Source) Edition + intellij-elm
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- elm
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
Research direction
Start by reviewing the IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition and intellij-elm links in the issue, then gather feedback from people using the combination for Elm development. Done should mean a clear project recommendation or documented findings, including whether its resource usage is acceptable compared with Atom.
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Description
While we have traditionally resisted using IDEs for our coding, because they tend to be
We are always on the lookout for a more seamless development experience.
The latest Elmtown podcast https://elmtown.simplecast.fm/it-just-goes-on-and-on

Touched upon the power Intellij for refactoring and inline function signature hints ...
This could be worth investigating for larger Elm Apps.
https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download the Community Edition is Open Source and Free:

The Elm language plugin looks really good! It gives code error warnings in-line without having to run the compiler, this could be a significant boost to coding speed.
Question is: will it consume as much Disk/RAM as Atom? #23 🤔
is anyone @dwyl using this combo for writing Elm code?
can you share some feedback?
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- No language data
- Stars
- 84
- Forks
- 22
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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