Chapter 3: IDE Tips and Tricks

Knowing your IDE makes your life easier, helps you develop faster, and even trains you to write better code. In this chapter, we are going to cover IDE features such as refactoring that can save you time by automatically extracting code into methods, variables, parameters, and so on. Other features, such as column editing and multi-caret editing, help you make changes in multiple places without having to edit each one individually. There are also a number of command-line switches that you can pass to the IDE to control behavior and configuration, so when it starts you are up and ready to work! The terminal inside the IDE can help you perform functions and quickly test commands before you put them in your application. ...

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