After spending a lot of time writing code in the Ultimate edition of Intellij Idea, I find myself frequently needing to test methods or large code sections.
I often find myself copying and pasting code into Firebug in Firefox, which is a small and cramped space with no editing features. If I need to make changes to the code, I have to do it in Firebug, test it, then copy and paste it back into Intellij Idea.
Is there a way to run Firebug-like console code directly in Intellij? Similar to using the Inspect tool in Java debug mode? It would be incredibly useful, especially if we could just highlight code and press run.
Browser compatibility is not a concern – any browser would work for this purpose.
Is this feature already available? Is there an Intellij plugin that offers this functionality? If not, why not? :(
Thank you!