To get started, you can select the “hello-world” plugin and press the green “Run Plugin” button to compile and run it. By convention plugin.kts or oovy files are plugin entry points.
LivePlugin comes with a few example plugins, some of which, including “hello-world”, are installed by default. It contains a list of folders with plugins source code. Once you install LivePlugin, you can open any project and notice that there is a panel called “Plugins”.
Even though this blog has details specific to IntelliJ platform and the JVM, some concepts and ideas are universal enough to be applied in other environments. This blog post is about LivePlugin – a plugin for adding/modifying IntelliJ IDEs functionality at runtime without IDE restarts using Kotlin (or Groovy). Surprisingly, this is not the case, and most code editors and IDEs don’t have the functionality to develop extensions at runtime. This is different for code editors and IDEs with their target audience being power users, so it seems like a sensible idea to make extending editor/IDE functionality and task automation as easy as possible. In practice, it’s not suitable for the purpose, and, to be fair, most users are probably not even aware of the developer console, so for a browser development team spending extra effort to make it possible to extend the browser at runtime via console might not be justified. In theory, this allows you to do any kind of automation and extend browser functionality at runtime. Pretty much all modern web browsers have developer tools console which lets you type some JavaScript code and run it in the browser.
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