Using IntelliJ for Django Development
by oliver | July 11, 2008 | In Django, Hosting, IntelliJ, Python, Web Development | No Comments
About a year ago I’ve switched over to IntelliJ as my primary Java IDE. When I began to dabble a bit in Django a few days ago, I realized that IntelliJ had me spoiled when it comes to Editor Features – especially when working with Javascript and HTML files. Notepad++ - although a great text editor on its own right - simply didn’t cut it for me for web development.
When I tried opening my Django files in IntelliJ I had to realize that IntelliJ needs a project context for opening a file. Even for a simple html file. Fortunately the solution was pretty straight forward. Navigate to your Django project root directory and create a new file .project. Some of you have guessed it: we are pretending to be Eclipse. Open the file in a text editor and paste the following snipped into it:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<projectDescription>
<name>myproject</name>
<comment></comment>
<projects></projects>
</projectDescription>
Edit the <name> tag value and change it to your liking.