Will Amper enter the alpha or beta stage this year...

# amper

[MutexCast]

Will Amper enter the alpha or beta stage this year? I'm curious about how long it will take until there is a version that can be integrated into IntelliJ IDEA and used in a production environment. Gradle is so frustrating.

[joffrey]

What do you mean by "integrated into IntelliJ IDEA"? We already have an Amper plugin for IDEA, which integrates Amper pretty nicely

[joffrey]

Regarding going alpha, we're waiting until we have a prototype for extensibility (plugins/custom tasks), without which Amper wouldn't really be production-ready. I can't make any promises but this is definitely in our short term plans ;)

[MutexCast]

Thank you for your reply. I have noticed that Amper is currently only available for the EAP version of IntelliJ IDEA. When I mentioned integrating Amper into IDEA, I meant that Amper would be pre-installed in the stable version of IDEA or can be used in the stable version of IDEA.

[louiscad]

Amper is quite EAP itself, so I think it makes sense it's bound to EAP IntelliJ until it's stable, along with it's IntelliJ IDEA integrations 🙂

[joffrey]

Technically, the Amper plugin is developed in the IntelliJ monorepo and published together with IntelliJ IDEA, so it's available in all versions of IDEA that have been released since we started Amper.
For instance the IDEA 2024.3 and 2025.1 releases have a corresponding Amper plugin.

The only reason we're telling users to use the IJ EAP version is because the Amper plugin moves fast and most of the recent features are only available in the latest EAP versions. Also, the plugin is currently coupled to a single version of Amper itself, so if you're using Amper 0.7.0 you need a plugin that knows how to deal with this version. In the future we'll work on compatibility with multiple versions, but at the moment it's simpler to move forward this way.