Is there a way to create an IDE based on Intellij?

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Is there a way to create an IDE based on Intellij?

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With some searches on the internet I discovered that Ides as Android Studio and Phpstorm are Ides based on Intellij, each with a purpose.

How to create an IDE based on it?

The idea is to create an IDE with buttons for:

create projects, with project templates with a folder and file system that I set myself.
call command line utilities in background, to open browser (run) and even compile (if by chance you wanted to call a React with the project parameters to compile a apk or a ipa)
location to configure paths from JDK, SDK, React, etc (or even a default browser)

Anyway, create Ides to automate my development with what I use, whether with pages only with HTML, CSS and JS or structures with files .java or .php and create project templates for various projects, such as compiling (if applicable) and testing them.

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I wonder, there’s a way,

Does it give.

and if so, to create an IDE based on it as well.

You just make one Fork of the version repository communit of the IDE and create your own implementation.

I was reading, in the link below, and I conclude that a custom Intellij IDE, is nothing more than a distribution of it with plugins already installed, am I right? Link: https://www.jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/basics/checkout_and_build_community.html

– Lucas Batista

2017/11/27 at 14:43
@Lucasferreirabatista does not necessarily... You can make your own version of it independent of plugins. I just don’t think it’s such a trivial activity

– igventurelli

2017/11/27 at 14:45

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by Maniero • **444,682** points · Answer 1 · 2017-11-27T10:19:31+00:00

Actually you don’t want to create an IDE, you want to customize a few things. I don’t know if much, it just seems to want the Intellij IDEA and the Webstorm or Phpstorm.

But if you really want to make an IDE get ready for a Herculean work and nothing trivial. In fact Intellij is a platform that can be used as a basis for your IDE.