JetBrains Nextflow Support

Bring the power of Nextflow to your JetBrains IDE.

This plugin provides enhanced support for Nextflow within JetBrains environments, with a special focus on IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm. It bridges the gap between official Nextflow tooling and native IDE capabilities.

Features

• Official Nextflow Language Server Support: Real-time code completion, parameter hints, hover documentation, and error checking directly integrated via the official Nextflow Language Server Protocol (LSP).
• Native Run & Debug Configurations: Effortlessly create, execute, and remote-debug your Nextflow pipelines directly from the IDE. Includes full support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Note that debugging only works on IntelliJ IDEA.
• Official Syntax Highlighting: Highlights Nextflow-specific syntax (like processes, workflows, channels, and operators) via official TextMate bundle integration.
• Code Actions & Refactoring: Utilize LSP-powered formatting and specialized actions to convert legacy scripts and pipelines to static types.
• File Templates: Quickly bootstrap your projects with built-in templates for .nf, .nf.test, and nextflow.config files.
• Interactive Nextflow Console: Launch an interactive REPL console to test Nextflow logic directly within the IDE.
• Dedicated Tool Windows: Specialized project and resource panels to better manage and interact with your Nextflow environment.
• nf-core Support: Integrated support for managing nf-core-based pipelines, with a dedicated tool window (requires nf-core/tools).

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Development

The project is built using Gradle. Here are the common commands used for development:

Running in a Sandbox IDE

To launch a lightweight JetBrains IDE instance with the plugin installed for manual testing:

./gradlew runIde

Building the Plugin

To build the complete plugin distribution (which outputs a ZIP file in build/distributions):

./gradlew buildPlugin

Running Tests

To run the automated test suite:

./gradlew test

Credits / See Also

This plugin utilizes and integrates with the official Nextflow language server:

• nextflow-io/language-server

Textmate bundles and feature inspiration are from the official Nextflow VSCode extension:

• nextflow-io/vscode-language-nextflow