Friend Recommendations

A few good things built by fellow independent developers — IDEA plugins and dev tools alike. Worth checking out if you're doing backend development.

Cool Request

An HTTP client plugin built right into IDEA — think Postman, but embedded in your IDE. Supports Spring Boot, Spring MVC, JAX-RS and more, with one-click requests, arbitrary method invocation, API timing stats, and online doc generation. Over a million downloads and counting.

CLI Manager

A cross-platform AI CLI workbench that unifies management of various AI command-line tools. Provides a consistent command-line environment across operating systems, making it easy to use and manage AI-powered CLI utilities.