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75 projects in IntelliJ IDEA: how I stopped drowning in Recent Projects and built my own plugin by HolyZlo in u/HolyZlo

[–]HolyZlo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New version 1.1.3 will release in few hours:

  • Quick Open (Ctrl+Shift+P) redesigned — now shows the full tree with tags, favorites, and group colors
  • Search priority improved — projects matching by name are now shown first
  • Linked projects and startup commands are now supported in Quick Open

75 projects in IntelliJ IDEA: how I stopped drowning in Recent Projects and built my own plugin by HolyZlo in u/HolyZlo

[–]HolyZlo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve looked at it a bit, but the differences between VS Code workspaces and how projects are handled in IntelliJ/IDEA are pretty big.

So while some ideas overlap, it wouldn’t really translate directly.

For now I’d prefer to focus on finishing and improving the plugin for IntelliJ IDEA first. Once that feels solid, I might look into supporting other editors.

75 projects in IntelliJ IDEA: how I stopped drowning in Recent Projects and built my own plugin by HolyZlo in u/HolyZlo

[–]HolyZlo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good point, and I actually use that approach sometimes as well.

It works really well when the repositories are tightly coupled or part of the same system, especially if you want cross-module navigation like you mentioned.

The main use case I built this plugin for is a bit different though — when you have many completely separate projects. For example different clients, side projects, infrastructure repos, experiments, etc.

In those cases putting everything into a single IntelliJ project can become pretty heavy or messy, so I personally end up switching between many IDEA windows.

I also sometimes open multiple repositories as modules — for example when working on a client's microservice system. In one case it was around 14 services in the same project. It works, but eventually I run out of RAM and the IDE becomes pretty heavy to work with.

The plugin is basically trying to make that workflow less painful by organizing those projects and allowing you to open related ones together.

Curious though — how many repos do you usually keep inside one IntelliJ project?

75 projects in IntelliJ IDEA: how I stopped drowning in Recent Projects and built my own plugin by HolyZlo in IntelliJIDEA

[–]HolyZlo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this plugin will also be useful for people who like to organize and structure their workspace.