I've been trying out IntelliJ IDEA for JavaScript editing, and I like it so far, but I'm having a small problem with a new project.
I can't seem to be able to get IDEA to display the directories in the project directory in the Project view. Even if I manually add a directory, it refuses to display it.
I think this probably has something to do with the fact that it tries to apply Java conventions, but when I imported an old Eclipse project, it showed all directories just fine.
Do I have to use Eclipse to create projects and import in IDEA to get the directories visible, or is there some other trick?
I am using IDEA version 8.1.3, and the code is just a plain bunch of HTML and JavaScript files, not in any kind of a Java environment.
It appears I need to manually create a Java module (File->New Module) inside the project to actually see the "proper" directory view. I do wonder why it didn't show up when I created it with the project.
I've been struggling with this same problem and found another reason why directories may not show up correctly. Make sure the "Content Root" is correct.
Click on the project
Select "File"->"Project Structure"
Select "modules" from the left column, and select a module.
On the sources tab you will see the current "Content Root" along with a button to add a new content root.
Make sure that content root is correct. When in the project structure view you will only see files below the "Content Root". I'm fairly new to IntelliJ but I think of the content root as the basedir in ant terms.
These instructions are for IntelliJ 9.x
Hope this helps someone.
Current more straightforward logic:
remove the .idea/ folder
select in Idea File -> New project.
in left menu select Web Module, and then set up project folder
you're done!
I found the solution thanks to Thurman Sanders and decided to post a more clear answer, in case it helps anyone else. I know an answer like this would have saved me 5 minutes of fumbling around.
Problem
Some folders are excluded, by default. In most cases, this is exactly what you want. Other times, you need to see your "build" or "target" folder, for example.
Solution
Make Intellij stop excluding the folder you want to see
Open the Module Settings
select the module and press F4
or right click the module and choose "open module settings"
or press cmd; to open project settings, then select your module
Follow the steps in the picture, below:
select the 'sources' tab
select the folder you want to see
disable the 'excluded' option
Press OK
When you're done, the folder will turn orange and finally be visible in the project view!
Simplest way to do this!
Reading some of the other answers, they require you to go into Project Structure -> Modules and check that the sources are not excluded.
But in my case - there are no modules defined in the project at all, so that didn't help.
To easily create a module for your project and therefore show the folder structure -
Go to File menu -> New -> Project...
Select Static Web. Note: it does not matter if your project is "web" or not!
Hit next, then fill in the same Project Name: and Project location: as you have already.
IntelliJ will say "File Already Exists" - "Would you like to overwrite it?" - answer Yes.
Bam! Your Project Pane with the Project view selected should now instantly show the folder structure of your project.
If you have a maven project, you will need to add the root pom.xml in the Maven Projects window.
And if you want to add java to your project later, you should probably configure a JDK also.
Just use File » New Project » Static Web. All your files and directories will show up.
File -> Invalidate Caches / Restart worked for me.
The same problem had me going crazy for a couple of hours as well, coming from Netbeans where I could just start a new project and import any source tree. My project is PHP/JS and has nothing to do with Java, so it was not intuitive to have to create a Java module, just so I could see my files listed.
I found the solution (covered above) here for more insight.
Here is how I was able to "display" all folders in my project:
Somehow get to the Project Settings page (for me it was right-click the project then select Modules)
Make sure the Sources tab is selected
You should see a section in the middle entitled "Excluded Folders" under Source\Folders"
Click on the X next to it to remove it from being excluded and it becomes visible.
Hope it this helps.
I think this is happening to you as intellij's Project window has the 'Compact Empty Middle Packages' option as checked by default. You will find this option under Setting section of the Projects tab.
I had a test folder which wasn't displaying in IntelliJ. It turned out that it had no files in it, IntelliJ was only showing folders that had some files in them. When i manually added files in test folder via Explorer, it reflected back in IDE.
It happens sometime. You need to go to the configuration (Project Settings) and add the Source folder as content root and then possibly set source/resource etc. from the configuration tab. Apply all the changes and you should be done.
Just me own 2c. I used "New" -> "Module from existing sources" to get IntelliJ to show folders and files from inside a Github Java project. Hope this helps someone.
Platform : Intellij2019.3 Macos10.12
The solution is:
go to the File - project structure - Modules
In the left column, + Add Content Root, and add the folder you hope to use as the root directory.
mark the folder you want to compile as source root
rebuild
Just go to View -> Tool windows -> project or Alt+1
I had a similar problem, this fixed it:
File -> New -> Module from Existing Sources...
I chose the src folder and then it detected the rest on its own.
If you still have issues, try reimporting project by doing:
File -> New -> Project from Existing Sources...
In the project explorer window (where all the classes are), switch from "packages" view to "project" view. Then all files, not just classes are displayed.
Related
I have a project I'm working on and I am trying to do file organisation with it
I want to open a html file in a folder before it.
Here is an example of the folder tree I am creating:
Main Folder
Game_Folder
Rules
Each folder has a HTML, CSS and JS file in it (For organisation reasons). But I want to be able to open
'Game_Folder.html' from the 'Rules.html'. I know how to do it from the other way, I just cannot figure out how to do it backwards.
I cannot use a full directory (c:/) as it will be operated on a few different computers. So the file location must be in local file format (if that makes sense).
Thanks in Advance
-J
Navigating backwards using ..
Background info
I don't know if you are familiar with the command line but typing cd .. moves you backwards from one directory. This can also be used to reference files outside your current directory
Presumed file layout
Presuming that your file layout is like this:
-> /Main_Folder
-> index.html
-> /Game_Folder
-> game_folder.html
-> /Rules_Folder
-> rules.html
Proposed solution
You can use this rule as below to reference your game_folder.html from your rules.html:
Click to open
Other resources
Some other things worth looking at are:
This answer where I based my answer from
This article from W3 schools
Also leave a comment if you have any questions
In case the question wasn't clear. I have 3 MVC projects in one Solution. Every time I create a new project it adds the "Scripts" folder with all the .js files I'll ever need. I don't want to have this created every time for every application. Is there a way to reference scripts from a central folder in the solution so all applications/projects can share one common script folder with all the scripts common among them?
Edit:
Please explain the pros and cons of doing this if there are any...now I'm curious.
Here is what I would recommend:
Right click the solution and create a New Solution Folder called Common Javascript Files (or whatever you feel like calling it.
Right click on the Solution, click Open Folder in Windows Explorer,
or navigate there manually for other versions of Visual Studio :(
In the solution directory, create a directory with the same name as the solution folder (solution folders do not normally match directories at the source code level but this will for sanity sake).
In this new directory, add files that need to be shared between solutions.
In Visual Studio, click the solution folder and select Add - Existing Item.
In the file selection dialog, navigate to the directory previous created, select the file(s) added to the directory and click Add.
In each Project that needs a shared file, right click on the project (or directory within the project) and click Add - Existing Item.
Navigate to the shared Directory, Select the files and click the drop down arrow then click Add As Link.
Now the files in the projects are essentially short cuts to the files in the Solution Folder. But they are treated as actual files in the project (this includes .CS or Visual Basic files, they will be compiled as files that actually exist in the project).
PROS
Files are truly shared across projects at Design time
Only the files needed for each project can be added, it's not all or nothing
Does not require any configuration in IIS (virtual directory etc)
If the solution is in TFS Source control, you can add the Directory to the TFS Source and the shared files will be source controlled.
Editing a file by selecting it in the Project, will edit the actual file.
Deleting a Linked file does not delete the file.
This is not limited to JS files, linked files can be ANY file you might need (Images, Css, Xml, CS, CSHTML, etc)
CONS
Each deployment gets it's own file.
There is a small learning curve when understanding that Solution Folders are not Directories that exist in a Solution Directory.
The best thing to do, imo, is to roll your own CDN... Basically just create another site in IIS and give it it's own binding, e.g. "http://cdn.somedomain.com"
Then store all of your css/js/fonts/shared images etc on the CDN site and link to them from your other sites.
Doing so solves 2 problems,
All of your stuff is shared when it needs to be and you only have to manage 1 revision per file.
Your users browsers can cache them in 1 single location instead of downloading copies of your stuff for every site that uses them..
I added this answer because I see a lot of people referrencing creating virtual directories. While that does indeed share the files, it creates multiple download paths for them which is an extreme waste of bandwidth. Why make your users download jquery.js (1 * number of sites) when you can allow them to download it once on (cdn.somedomain.com).
Also when I say waste of bandwidth, I'm not just talking about server bandwidth, I'm talking about mobile users on data plans... As an example, I hit our companies HR site (insuance etc) on my phone the other day and it consumed 25mb right out the gate, downloaded jquery and a bunch of stuff 5 times each... On a 2gb a month data plan, websites that do that really annoy me.
Here it goes, IMO the best and easiest solution, I spent a week trying to find best and easiest way which always had more cons than pros:
Resources(DLL)
Shared
images
image.png
css
shared.css
scripts
jquery.js
MvcApp1
Images
Content
Shared <- We want to get files from above dll here
...
MvcApp2
Images
Content
Shared <- We want to get files from above dll here
...
Add following to MvcApp1 -> Project -> MvcApp1 Properties -> Build events -> post build event:
start xcopy "$(SolutionDir)Resources\Shared\*" "$(SolutionDir)MvcApp1\Shared" /r /s /i /y
Here is explanation on what it does: Including Build action content files directory from referenced assembly at same level as bin directory
Do the same for MvcApp2. Now after every build fresh static files will be copied to your app and you can access files like "~/Shared/css/site.css"
If you want you can adjust the above command to copy scripts from .dll to scripts folder of every app, that way you could move some scripts to .dll without having to change any paths,here is example:
If you want to copy only scripts from Resources/Shared/scripts into MvcApp1/scripts after each build:
start xcopy "$(SolutionDir)Resources\Shared\Scripts\*" "$(SolutionDir)MvcApp1\Scripts" /r /s /i /y
This is a late answer but Microsoft has added a project type called Shared Project starting Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 that can do exactly what you wan't without having to link files.
The shared project reference shows up under the References node in the
Solution Explorer, but the code and assets in the shared project are
treated as if they were files linked into the main project.
"In previous versions of Visual Studio, you could share source code between projects by Add -> Existing Item and then choosing to Link. But this was kind of clunky and each separate source file had to be selected individually. With the move to supporting multiple disparate platforms (iOS, Android, etc), they decided to make it easier to share source between projects by adding the concept of Shared Projects."
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/somasegar/2014/04/02/visual-studio-2013-update-2-rc-windows-phone-8-1-tools-shared-projects-and-universal-windows-apps/
Info from this thread:
What is the difference between a Shared Project and a Class Library in Visual Studio 2015?
https://stackoverflow.com/a/30638495/3850405
A suggestion that will allow you to debug your scripts without re-compiling the project:
Pick one "master" project (which you will use for debugging) and add the physical files to it
Use "Add As Link" feature as described in Eric's answer to add the script files to the other projects in solution
Use CopyLinkedContentFiles task on Build, as suggested in Mac's comment to copy the files over to the second over to your additional projects
This way you can modify the scripts in the "master" project without restarting the debugger, which to me makes the world of difference.
In IIS create a virtual folder pointing to the same scripts folder for each of the 3 applications. Then you'll only need to keep them in a single application. There are other alternatives, but it really depends on how your applications are structured.
Edit
A scarier idea is to use Areas. In a common area have a scripts directory with the scripts set to be compiled. Then serve them up yourself by getting them out of the dll. This might be a good idea if you foresee the common Area having more functionality later.
Most of the files that are included by default are also available via various CDN's.
If you're not adding your own custom scripts, you may not even need a scripts directory.
Microsoft's CDN for scripts: http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/cdn.ashx
While I admit this is a pretty obscure problem, I'm posting this partly in case it is driving others crazy (too), partly because it might have wider ramifications, and partly because it may be an issue with my project settings.
In NB-8.1 I have several angular modules for handling a configuration-editing app. Since last week I have been trying to figure out why the navigator pane doesn't populate with these files. When I click on the source, the Navigator pane doesn't update. If the pane is newly opened, it shows <No view available>. If it is correctly showing another file, it remains showing the old file and effectively ignores the new file.
After experimenting, I found that it is specific to any js file with a filename prefix of "config" - which in this case was all the files for this particular app (config-service.js, config-ctrl.js, etc). Renaming the files with a new prefix (eg, "konfig-ctrl.js" or "x-config-ctrl.js") solved the issue.
Is this widespread, or a problem only with this project? If the latter, what should I look for? Help or advice appreciated.
This looks like a bug to me. AFAIK NetBeans is handling JS files with the config in name as possible Karma configurations and maybe it (although I can't remember if Karma has to be enabled or where exactly does it look for these candidate files...) I'd suggest to report a bug against NetBeans https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=web (component HTML Project)
I get a very similiar problem. Any js file with "conf" in the name (anywhere in the name) cannot be Run as javascript from Netbeans. Right-click on the file and Run is deactivated. Once I change the name to something else, it works.
I have installed webstorm and trying to create a simple angular js program.
I have created an empty project in webstorm, then added the angular.js file in libs directory. Then when I try to write code for angular js the auto completion is not working.
Here is the screenshot of the issue.
Please help me how to create angular js programs in webstorm?
Update:
Now I have added Angular JS as a dependency by following the steps Installing AngularJS Manually in JetBrains Doc. Also removed the angular js file from my project which was present as part of my 1st image in this post.
Even then I am not able to see the auto-completion working. I have verified that the angular js plugin is enabled in my webstorm. Please let me know what could be the issue?
Update:
I have plugin for Angular JS already enabled in my webstorm, please check below image:
Not really an answer (have you saved your HTML, why not put your JS code into external files)... but why not create a project with a generator using Yeoman - http://yeoman.io/ That will give you a better app structure, build tools, package managers, unit tests... and your IDE should be better equipped for this.
This may help too: http://blog.jetbrains.com/webstorm/2014/07/how-webstorm-works-completion-for-javascript-libraries/
There is a AngularJs plugin for Webstorm. This will give you autocomletion in html files. See this tutorial how to install it:
youtube tutorial
There is even a documentation page form JetBrains which explains how to creat a AngularJs Project:
JetBrains Doc
Found in WebStorm doc
Configure AngularJS as a WebStorm JavaScript library, to let WebStorm recognize AngularJS-specific structures and provide full coding assistance:
Open the Settings dialog box, and click JavaScript Libraries.
In the Libraries area, click the Add button.
In the New Library dialog box that opens, specify the name of the library.
Click the Add button add next to the list of library files and choose Attach Files or Attach Directory on the context menu, depending of whether you need separate files or an entire folder.
Select the Angular.js or Angular.min.js, or an entire directory in the dialog box that opens. WebStorm returns to the New Library dialog box where the Name read-only field shows the name of the selected files or folder.
In the Type field, specify which version you have downloaded and are going to add.
If you added Angular.js, choose Debug. This version is helpful in the development environment, especially for debugging.
If you added the minified Angular.min.js, choose Release. This version is helpful in the production environment because the file size is significantly smaller.
Or check out this blog post
I want to load the entire www folder from the wamp folder into the Eclipse project and work on it from here. I've created a Static Web Project and tried Importing the files from the www folder in there, but it just makes duplicates of those file. How can i open all the www files in Eclipse, so any change i make in the IDE it appears in the files in the www folder. I'm sure it's something simple, but it seems at this time of day, i'm really out of it.
This should be possible if you try creating a Linked folder inside Eclipse.
Take a look at this.
Update
Also, steps to do this (from here) :
If you don't want to put your source code in the project, you can
"link" the source code to the project instead. In that case, you should
do the following:
1. Right-click the project, and choose Properties from the context menu.
2. Select "Java Build Path" from the left-hand side.
3. Click the "Source" tab along the top.
4. Click the "Link Source..." button.
5. Fill out the dialog box, and click the OK buttons.