This whole process is managed by JetBrains Gateway, a new, compact, standalone app that provides everything you need to get started with remote development. A thin client runs locally and connects to this IDE backend and provides a full working user interface as if the IDE was running locally, even though all the processing is done on the remote server. The IDE is installed as a backend service, where it will load a project without displaying a user interface.

Space keeps your code up to date, and your dependencies ready, compiled, and indexed so it’s ready for you to connect and start working in seconds! JetBrains remote developmentĪt its simplest, remote development will connect to an existing server via SSH. We’re also introducing orchestration support in JetBrains Space, our all-in-one solution for software teams and projects, to allow automated management of remote development environments as virtual machines in the cloud. The experience is like working with a locally hosted project and a locally installed JetBrains IDE. You can host your source code, toolchain, and IDE backend on a remote server, and use a local thin client based on the IntelliJ Platform to write, navigate, refactor, run, debug, and test your project.

With the release of the 2021.3 wave of IDEs this week, JetBrains is adding remote development support to the IntelliJ Platform!

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