elm make from IntelliJ IDEA plugin

Question

I'm learning Elm, and I installed the Elm plugin: https://github.com/klazuka/intellij-elm

Fired up IntelliJ IDEA and opened the local copy of this code:

https://github.com/rtfeldman/elm-0.19-workshop/tree/master/intro/part1

I understand that I can compile the Main with elm make Main.elm --output elm.js from the terminal but I want to know if there's a GUI-way to do this, well, since I am using IntelliJ IDEA.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65644254/elm-make-from-intellij-idea-plugin

Answer 1

File Watchers are suitable for automatically triggering the elm make process.

The External Tools settings are more appropriate for triggering elm make from within IntelliJ only when required. Each External Tool can have its own keyboard shortcut defined.

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An example File Watcher:

An example of a configured External Tool: