Since starting my role and currently 5 years into it, I have been using IntelliJ to do the majority of my work, and all of my programming. During Makers, I was used to working with Sublime (and hating the pop-up to buy the paid version) and Atom (I still use to write my notes in markdown) and spent around a minute using VIM (which I still don't like). 
But IntelliJ has been the best tool I am using to this day.
But my first few weeks of using it were tough. I remember while pairing, I had a notebook, which was full of shortcuts and commands...it was so overwhelming. 
But if you learn a few things, you can make it work for you and make work more productive, and writing in Java more enjoyable (for some this will be hard to believe).
The greatest reason for becoming a power user is to reduce the number of movements and focus more on writing code efficiently and effectively.
In fact, you could do practically everything codewise within this IDE plus a few plugins without ever leaving the application. It has an editor, terminal, database viewer, HTTP client, git tools, etc.
So I will share a few things, and hopefully, you can try them out and they might help you.
Until next time...

Since starting my role and currently 5 years into it, I have been using IntelliJ to do the majority of my work, and all of my programming. During Makers, I was used to working with Sublime (and hating the pop-up to buy the paid version) and Atom (I still use to write my notes in markdown) and spent around a minute using VIM (which I still don't like). 

But IntelliJ has been the best tool I am using to this day.

But my first few weeks of using it were tough. I remember while pairing, I had a notebook, which was full of shortcuts and commands...it was so overwhelming. 

But if you learn a few things, you can make it work for you and make work more productive, and writing in Java more enjoyable (for some this will be hard to believe).

The greatest reason for becoming a power user is to reduce the number of movements and focus more on writing code efficiently and effectively.

In fact, you could do practically everything codewise within this IDE plus a few plugins without ever leaving the application. It has an editor, terminal, database viewer, HTTP client, git tools, etc.

So I will share a few things, and hopefully, you can try them out and they might help you.

Until next time...


IntelliJ - Intro