Hi everyone. Are you guys all using intelij or is there someone using vs code for grails developemnt? I looked for this questions here in the channel, no one asked about this.. Is there any way to have a good grails experience with grails in vs code? In my last job I used intelij, but for now, I wouldn't like to pay for intelij. Thanks

Intellij seems to have the best support. I know that @giangio had done some research in this area and I seem to recall he may have generated a visual studio plugin using AI too. Longer term, we want to integrate gdsl's into the Grails code base so that IntelliJ has better autocompletion.

Oh, thank you.. Yes, I thought about it also... now with AI autocomplete any text editor could work... thank you, I will give a try.

Hi @User we are using IntelliJ IDEA CE (the free version) writing Grails applications with some "hints" to make them auto-complete with the standard Groovy support. For example we define domain classes like this:

class TCompany implements GormEntity, MultiTenant<TCompany> {
    Long id
    LocalDateTime dateCreated

    String name
    Boolean isOwned
    Boolean isSupplier
    Boolean isClient
}

And controllers like this:

class CompanyController implements Controller {

This will help with any IDE supporting the Groovy language. I have no recent experiences with Eclipse or VSCode but it's a starting point and the boilerplate code is not much of a problem.

I see, interesting.. Thank you @giangio

FYI: There's also

@SelfType(MyType)

for hints