2.6 Getting Set Up in an IDE

IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ IDEA is an excellent IDE for Grails 3.0 development. It comes in 2 editions, the free community edition and the paid-for ultimate edition.

The community edition can be used for most things, although GSP syntax higlighting is only part of the ultimate edition

To get started with Intellij IDEA and Grails 3.0 simply go to File / Open and point IDEA at your build.gradle file to import and configure the project.

TextMate, Sublime, VIM etc.

There are several excellent text editors that work nicely with Groovy and Grails. See below for references:

• A TextMate bundle exists Groovy / Grails support in Textmate

• A Sublime Text plugin can be installed via Sublime Package Control for the Sublime Text Editor.

• See this post for some helpful tips on how to setup VIM as your Grails editor of choice.

• An Atom Package is available for use with the Atom editor.