

You can learn about additional improvements for Spring Boot on the IntelliJ IDEA blog.įor Scala enthusiasts, IDEA now supports Play Framework 2.6. On the frameworks side of things, it adds a Run Dashboard and actuator endpoints in the Run/Debug tool window. Additionally, IDEA 2017.2 upgrades its support for Kotlin (1.1.4), Groovy (2.5.0), Scala (debugging in SBT), JavaScript (parameter hints), TypeScript (code arrangement features), and CSS (adds module support). Java 9 enhancements include module diagrams and refactoring features such as replacing set construction with Set.of(items). Note that this feature only works for Java, and you have to be using the IDE's compiler (not Gradle or Maven's). One of the more innovative new features is chain completion a form of code completion that recognizes and suggests subsequent method calls, based on how frequently they're used in your project. It also has improved analysis around nulls. Trisha Gee's blog post about this release notes that there are many usability enhancements new classes of warning like if you are creating empty collections or Strings or if a number is out of range on an array. JetBrains recently released IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2, the quarterly release of its flagship Java IDE.
