Hooray! Today we have some exciting news for you. After all, it is not often JetBrains introduces new developer tools. Now that you’re excited as well, we’re very pleased to announce Big Data Tools – a new IntelliJ IDEA plugin that integrates Spark and brings support for editing and running Zeppelin notebooks. Now with the Big Data Tools plugin, you can create, edit, and run Zeppelin notebooks without ever having to leave your favorite IDE. The plugin offers smart navigation, code completion, inspections & quick-fixes, and refactoring inside notebooks.
So, what precisely does the plugin support now?
- Browsing, creating, and deleting notebooks
- Coding assistance for Scala paragraphs
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- Code completion
- Rename refactoring
- Extract variable, method or parameter
- Go to declaration
- Show usages
- Creating and deleting paragraphs
- Running paragraphs
- Browsing paragraphs’ output
- Support for basic visualization
Note coding assistance is currently limited to the Scala code. Other languages will be coming later. Also, in the future, we plan to go beyond Zeppelin notebooks and add more general features that will streamline the developer experience for data engineers, data scientists, and other professionals that work with Big Data.
If you prefer to see it in action rather than just read about it, make sure to watch this short video:
Otherwise, go ahead and try it out for yourself! Below is a short introduction into how to get started. (more…)