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Best IDEs for Force.com (Survey. Your opinion is welcomed)
Hello,
I am currently using SFDC's Developer Console (because it's on the cloud) but would like to know the opinion of Developers who have worked with (or may have tried) other IDEs for Force.com.
I have come across various alternative IDEs such as:
Thank you very much.
I am currently using SFDC's Developer Console (because it's on the cloud) but would like to know the opinion of Developers who have worked with (or may have tried) other IDEs for Force.com.
I have come across various alternative IDEs such as:
- MavensMate which is not supported any more (Dec-2017) and the owner suggest to look at "Visual Studio Code Extension";
- Visual Studio Code Extension;
- Welkin Suite (It looks like a paid option but cannot see the price on their website);
- Illuminated Cloud (hosted within JetBrains Intellij IDEA); price seem to be 65 USD for 1 or few licenses (and we never know if the vendor will charge new versions)
- The traditional Force.com IDE Eclips based (Free but a real pain to install in a Mac);
- Any other IDE?
Thank you very much.
What made you switch from Eclipse Force.com to Visual Studio Code?
Have you found advantages of Visual Studio Code over Eclipse Force.com?
Thank you!
Thank you.
Have you (or are you) paying anything to JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA in order to add the Illuminated cloud plugin? What was/is the aproximate total amount of the solution you are using (JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA{42 USD/month?} + Illuminated cloud plugin {looks like is 65 USD one-off payment?}).
Thank you.
Go for IntelliJ Community Edition (https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/" target="_blank) which is free and pay onetime for illuminated cloud.
If you're using Salesforce DX, Visual Studio Code with the Salesforce extension set is great.
"...the Salesforce Extensions for VS Code are the future of Salesforce development. We are dedicating our resources to make this the best and most enjoyable desktop editor for Salesforce developers. With this focus on Visual Studio Code, we are moving away from our support of Eclipse. While the Force.com IDE will be supported and will receive some updates in the near future, the updates will focus mainly on compatibility (and of course, security if needed). We will not be adding any new major features to the Force.com IDE and we will eventually deprecate it entirely."
Thanks for sharing the blog link. It is really interesting to know.
Forget about all other IDEs now.
Code + SFDX extension + SFDX on any org (preview feature as of date) is the one that any SFDC developer will be delighted with!
https://github.com/forcedotcom/salesforcedx-vscode/wiki/Develop-Against-Any-Org-in-Visual-Studio-Code
https://welkinsuite.com/
Hello, I think you find it interest to try out Jetforcer - plugin for handy Salesforce development within JetBrains IDEs.
Just take a quick overview on the plugin "Quick Started" page https://jetforcer.com/get-started
or JetBrains blog https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2018/02/salesforce-development-plugins-part-2-jetforcer/
https://www.metarocket.io