:muscle: Brave people with `IDEA 2022.*` can try t...

# compose-desktop

[orangy]

💪 Brave people with IDEA 2022.* can try this home-built plugin that brings Android Studio features around Compose to IntelliJ in non-Android projects. CfD and CfW are supported. Colored composable functions, compose-specific inspections, support in some refactorings, some helpers in debugger, etc. You might need to configure colors for Composable functions in Preferences | Editor | Color Scheme | Compose . Install by drag’n’drop into IDEA, or use Plugins feature to install from disk. Feedback is welcome in 🧵 thread.

Compose Multiplatform IDE Support-0.1-SNAPSHOT.zip

[mikehearn]

Thank you. Seems at least preview works!

[orangy]

Preview is not even near what AS has, and it was there for quite some time already, it’s an extension to https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/16541-compose-multiplatform-ide-support

[orangy]

(I’m actually looking into Layout Inspector stuff, but it’s much more complex, but doable I believe)

[mikehearn]

Better than nothing, which is what I had before (already upgraded to newest IntelliJ)

[orangy]

@mikehearn your next Extract Method will be much better, because you will not forget to add @Composable 😆

[orangy]

If you tried it, and everything is working just fine, please tick ✅ reaction so I know there are no complaints because everything works 🙂

[Big Chungus]

I'm confused now. How is this different from the Compose MPP plugin in the marketplace?

[orangy]

It is that plugin with more features ported from Android Studio. We will publish an update to it after some testing.