EmbeddedBrowserIntellijPlugin

This is a plugin for Intellij providing a browser embedded into tool window so that you can watch cat videos while your Spring context is starting. Inspired by https://github.com/Jonatha1983/GIdeaBrowser.

Installation

Using IDE built-in plugin system:

Settings/Preferences > Plugins > Marketplace > Search for "EmbeddedBrowser" > Install Plugin
Manually:

Download the latest release and install it manually using Settings/Preferences > Plugins > ⚙️ > Install plugin from disk...

Configuration

As for now the plugin options can be set only by editing .idea/workspace.xml (remember to close the IDE before editing it).

You can add following optional properties to PropertiesComponent in .idea/workspace.xml:

com.github.plaskowski.embeddedbrowserintellijplugin.initial_url - the initial URL to load
com.github.plaskowski.embeddedbrowserintellijplugin.cache_path - a folder where browser should store its state
- configure this if you want the browser state (sessions, cookies) to persist between IDE restarts
- ⚠️ this may not be secure, use it at your own risk
com.github.plaskowski.embeddedbrowserintellijplugin.user_agent - custom User-Agent header
- set mobile-like User-Agent to browse sites in their mobile versions that better fit limited tool window space

⚠️ WARNING cache_path and user_agent modify global CEF settings so other CEF instances in IDE will be affected

Example:

  <component name="PropertiesComponent">
    ...
    <property name="com.github.plaskowski.embeddedbrowserintellijplugin.initial_url" value="https://youtube.com" />
    <property name="com.github.plaskowski.embeddedbrowserintellijplugin.cache_path" value="$USER_HOME$/.cef_cache" />
    <property name="com.github.plaskowski.embeddedbrowserintellijplugin.user_agent" 
      value="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_2_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1" />
    ...
  </component>

Roadmap

Settings UI
...?

Resources about plugin development

References

cat in the plugin logo comes from Noto Emoji set by Google Inc (Apache 2.0 license)