IntelliJ IDEA Editor Settings

    • Line length is 80 characters

    • Use spaces instead of tabs for indentation

    • Use UTF-8 encoding

    1. Install the Eclipse Code Formatter plugin, then restart IDEA

    2. Open Settings (Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+,)

    3. On the Other Settings › Eclipse Code Formatter page

      1. Check Use the Eclipse code formatter

      2. In the Supported file types section, check Enable Java

    4. Go to Editor › Code Style, and set Hard wrap at (columns) to 80

    1. Open Settings (Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+,)

    2. Go to Editor › Code Style › Java and on the Imports tab

      1. Make sure that Use single class import is checked

      2. Set both Class count to use import with ‘*‘ and Names count to use static import with ‘*‘ to 99

      3. On the Import Layout pane, make sure that Layout static imports separately is checked

      4. Remove all the packages in the list Packages to Use Import with ‘*‘

      5. Organize Java imports to comply to the convention defined below:

        Java

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    1. Open Settings (Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+,)

    2. Go to Editor › Copyright › Copyright Profiles and create a new profile named Vaadin, with the copyright text as defined below:

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    IntelliJ IDEA has a known problem with importing sources of other module as resources. Which is the case with the Flow project where flow-client has sources as a resource.

    The fix for this is to during development time comment out the flow-server resource for the .

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