Here are the steps necessary to setup and be able to use Illuminated Cloud 2 for Salesforce development in IntelliJ.Ģ) Install the most recent version of IntelliJ Community Edition (or Ultimate if you want to pay for the advanced features)ģ) After the JDK and IntelliJ have been installed, open IntelliJ and go to File -> Settings -> Plugins, click the Marketplace tab at the top and search for Illuminated CloudĤ) Click the install button to install Illuminated Cloud 2 (Do not install the original Illuminated Cloud option, it is outdated).ĥ) After Illuminated Cloud is done installing and IntelliJ restarts, start creating a new IntelliJ project. How to Setup IntelliJ and Illuminated Cloud 2 It is the most point and click/easy to use of them all and it does not suffer because of it. I have tried out all of them and my preference is IntelliJ/Illuminated Cloud 2 and that’s because between the incredible power of the widely used and extremely popular IntelliJ IDE and the impeccable work Scott Wells has put into Illuminated Cloud 2 to help it leverage all of those IntelliJ features for SF development, it’s borderline impossible to top it. I struck out the last two because you really shouldn’t ever use them even though they are technically available options. Today there are five IDE’s to choose from and I’m gonna walk you through how to install and configure my personal favorite, Illuminated Cloud 2.īefore I get started here are a list of your IDE options and their prices:ġ) IntelliJ (Illuminated Cloud 2) – $90 a yearĢ) Visual Studio Code (SF Plugins) – Freeģ) Welkins Suite (Pure SF IDE) – $150 a yearĤ) Eclipse (Retired IDE) – Free ![]() It is well worth your time to invest an hour or two to figure out how to use an IDE to improve your productivity as a developer.īack when I started developing on this platform the only IDE’s we had was the IDE in Eclipse and the Dev Console… if you really count it. Its primary purpose is to make your life as a developer considerably easier by doing things like:Ģ) Auto-completing functions names, field names, object names, etc.ĥ) Putting your command line in the same place you develop. ![]() IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment.
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