getting_started.md

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Creating Your First Plugin

This documentation section will help you get started with developing plugins for the IntelliJ Platform. You can use either IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition or IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate as your IDE. Both include the complete set of plugin development tools. To become more familiar with IntelliJ IDEA, please refer to the IntelliJ IDEA Web Help.

In this section:

• Setting Up a Development Environment
• Creating a Plugin Project
• Build Number Ranges
• Creating an Action
• Running and Debugging a Plugin
• Deploying a Plugin
• Plugin Compatibility with IntelliJ Platform Products
• Publishing a plugin to plugin repository