WASP and IntelliJ Idea
Does anyone here use JetBrains IntelliJ Idea?
I prefer it to VSCode, and has built-in configurations to run and monitor your app during development. I can set it to run "npm" or "node" commands but I'm not sure how to set it to run "wasp start". Does anyone have any ideas?
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What does the alias "wasp" call in terminal? like what does "wasp start" actually do behind the scenes?
thanks for bringing it up! Wasp is a standalone binary, I guess IntelliJ should have a way to execute any binary?
Under the hood it runs frontend and backend but also some other stuff, like watching your app and recompiling on every change etc. So I think it wouldn't be that easy to avoid running wasp start, but @martinsos will know details
Yeah, you need
wasp start
, it actually does quite some work in the background. But I am sure you can tell IntelliJ Idea to run custom program!