soundarya0 / idea-cloudformation

AWS CloudFormation plugin for IntelliJ-based IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA, RubyMine, WebStorm, PhpStorm, PyCharm, AppCode, Android Studio, DataGrip, CLion)

AWS CloudFormation plugin for IntelliJ-based IDEs
(IntelliJ IDEA, RubyMine, WebStorm, PhpStorm, PyCharm, AppCode, Android Studio, DataGrip, CLion)

Latest stable version

Install plugin from IDE: File -> Settings -> Plugins -> Browse Repositories -> search for CloudFormation

See IntelliJ IDEA plugin repository: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7371

Old Versions

"master" branch is compatible with IntelliJ-based IDEs 2017.1+ Plugin sources for older IDE versions are in other branches.

See versions history at https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7371

Quick Start

Note: you need IDEA 2017.1 or later for YAML support

• Open any *.template, *.json, *.yaml file with CloudFormation JSON/YAML inside
• There should be number of features available:
  • Template validation
    • Overall file structure
    • References to resources, conditions, parameters, mappings
    • Resource types and properties
  • File structure (aka Go to member) (Ctrl-F12 on Windows): fast jump to any entity in the file
  • Completion in Ref clause
  • Completion of resources types and properties
  • Live template for Ref clause: type "ref" and press Tab
  • Ctrl-Click on any reference to jump to its definition
  • Quick Documentation for resource types and properties
  • Format file

Builds from trunk

https://teamcity.jetbrains.com/project.html?projectId=IdeaAwsCloudFormation_Master&guest=1

Build and Test locally

• "gradlew assemble" to build plugin in build/distributions
• "gradlew test" to run tests
• "gradlew runIdea" to run IntelliJ IDEA with CloudFormation plugin

Make a release

• Pin and tag build with 'release' on https://teamcity.jetbrains.com/viewType.html?buildTypeId=IdeaAwsCloudFormation_Master_Build
• Add release to https://github.com/shalupov/idea-cloudformation/releases
• Upload zip from https://teamcity.jetbrains.com/viewType.html?buildTypeId=IdeaAwsCloudFormation_Master_Build to https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7371-aws-cloudformation