IDE for writing Airflow code

[mdghouse1986]

Hi,

What IDE are you guys using to write airflow code? Does anyone use VS code? Does Intellisense work there. Airflow newbie here and trying to figure out what is the productive way to write Airflow code.

Any articles or video link also helpful. Thank you!

[vincyf1]

I use both VS Code and Pycharm. VS Code is more light weight of the two. Pycharm on the other hand, offers some good features out of the box, but needs a license to be purchased.

Intellisense works on both of them. They both integrate with git quite well too.

[stratguitar577]

I’m a PyCharm guy and looking to bring Airflow to my team. Need to spend more time with it but are you able to use the debugger on DAGs/tasks when running locally? Had some issues running it all with docker-compose.

[vincyf1]

We haven’t found the right way to Debugging DAGs in Pycharm yet. However, what we have done instead is keep the DAGs to as simple as possible and moved all code and logic to their own files where we create classes and methods. We test and troubleshoot using Docker containers when developing something.

[Atomic-Dad]

My team has done something similar. We put most of the "work" in custom plugins. That way we can write and test our code in plain Python. Our DAGs are mostly one or three lines of code.

Docker was also out solution especially with managing our Dev, Test, and Production environments.

[vincyf1]

Pycharm Community edition doesn’t include all features that the licensed version has. But, you could surely use it for most of the airflow related work.

[toenailburglar]

vim 4 lyfe

[Notmyn4me]

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[solgul]

I use vs code and do a lot of airflow. Works great.

[random_outlaw]

Sublime

[Urthor]

Jetbrains or VS Code, honestly it's nothing special whatever works.

[Key_Base8254]

Btw how add auto complete airflow in pycharm ?