What is the best IntelliJ IDEA plugin?

Question

I like the Regex and SQL plugins. Which are your favorite ones?

Answer 1

The embedded Hot Swap plugin is too cool and intelligent.

Answer 2

Code Navigator

Answer 3

The SQL Query Plugin

(Yes, it's mentioned in the question, but to get comprehensive results for this poll, it should be included in answers too.)

This whole thing should be a community wiki, btw.

Answer 4

IDETalk. And not for chatting but because it makes it easy to share stacktraces send code pointers and compare code with colleagues without having to first commit it.

Answer 5

Grails and ANTLR for me.

Answer 6

TabSwitch. A small plugin to quickly switch between opened tabs.

Answer 7

Dilbert Daily Strip :-)

I'm not a heavy user, but some of my colleagues like this plugin a lot

Answer 8

IdeaVIM is amazing if you're a fan of vim.

Answer 9

Scala simply because it's the best IDE support for Scala, Netbeans is only stable at 2.7.3 (2.7.5 is the current stable) and Eclipse is incredibly buggy.

Answer 10

Scala for NetBeans is stable for 2.7.3, 2.7.4, 2.7.5 and coming 2.7.6. The nightly built is target to 2.8.0, also stable enough.

Answer 11

For me the best IntelliJ plug-in is the JFormDesigner plug-in (even if it's commercial). Even some of the Jetbrains guys recognized that this plug-in is much more polished than their own GUI Builder.

As in general, I think the best IntelliJ plug-in is the one that YOU as a user will write :). This would be also the best for IntelliJ's future. The more users would write more plug-ins, the better :).

Answer 12

JFormDesigner is the most advanced and polished application that can run under IntelliJ as a plug-in.

Answer 13

Identifier Highlighter is an essential.

I can't imagine developing without being able to "Alt + Shift + Up Arrow".