Getting Started

A User Guide is available to help acquaint users with features of Illuminated Cloud and the host JetBrains IDEs, and many detailed feature-specific demonstration videos have been posted to the YouTube channel.

The following demos and videos are available to help familiarize you with Illuminated Cloud:

The following videos and corresponding linked topics may also be useful. Note that the user interface has evolved since some of these videos were recorded, but they should be directionally useful.

Project creation
- Standard from scratch (video)
- Standard from version control and filesystem
- SFDX from scratch (video)
- SFDX from version control and filesystem (video)
- Offline symbol table role and maintenance
Configuration (video)
- - Application settings
  - Connection management
  - Project settings
  - Module settings
  - IDE features
Metadata and subscription management

- Static resource bundles (video 1) (video 2)
- Salesforce DX push and pull (video)

Completion and live templates
- Apex
  - Standard completion (video)
  - Smart completion (video)
  - Statement completion (video)
- Live templates (video 1) (video 2)
- Code generation (video)
- Visualforce

- Lightning (Aura) (video 1) (video 2)
- Lightning Web Components (video 1) (video 2)
- Metadata XML

Navigation (video)
- Go to Declaration/Implementation
- Find Usages
- Go to Related
API Documentation (video)
- Using integrated API documentation
- ApexDoc (video)
Unit test execution and coverage analysis (video)
- Ad hoc unit Apex test execution
- Apex unit test run configurations
- LWC Jest unit test execution
Refactoring (video)
- Rename (video)
- Extract variable
- Extract constant
- Extract method (video)
- Change method signature (video)
- Inline
- Safe Delete
- Copy
Code inspections and intentions (video)
- Unused declaration
- Unresolvable reference
- Illegal assignment
- Modifier agreement (video)
- Scope agreement (video)
- Other minor inspections
- PMD Apex and Visualforce (video)
- Lightning Lint
- Configuration and suppression
Tool windows (video 1) (video 2)
- Anonymous Apex
- SOQL Query
- Log Analyzer (video 1) (video 2)
  - Logging configuration (video)
Debugging (video 1) (video 2)
- Offline Apex debugger
  - Unit tests
  - Anonymous Apex
  - Log Analyzer
  - External log files
- LWC Jest unit test debugger (commercial IDEs only)
Salesforce Functions (video)