IT Manufactory

Adopting JetBrains products

Varij Kapil is one of 9 software developers at IT Manufactory. He was one of the first to start using IntelliJ IDEA. Back then, they were a team of 3 who worked only on backend tasks. As Varij and his colleagues began to build the frontend part of IT Manufactory’s main product, they faced the need to introduce more and more breaking changes under the hood. This made the entire team look for a solution that would help them make those changes without actually breaking anything. Varij, who had already had positive experience using IntelliJ IDEA, suggested that other team members try it out, along with WebStorm, another IDE by JetBrains.

The key benefits of using JetBrains products

Varij listed several benefits that he and his team gain from using JetBrains products:

• Freedom from the heavy lifting. The IT Manufactory team was impressed with the amount of heavy lifting that JetBrains IDEs could do for them compared to other solutions. The IDEs that they use, IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm, both come with a lot of essential features prepackaged, which makes it easy to jump straight to work without spending extra time on setting up the work environment.
• More confidence when making important changes. Varij and his teammates are still actively building new features on top of their main product, which sometimes requires a lot of things to change in a lot of places. Oftentimes, significant changes and code refactoring happen across multiple Java modules and React components. Thanks to JetBrains products, the team can make such huge changes without worrying about breaking anything. For instance, whenever they need to delete a file, they can delete it safely in one click instead of looking for that file across the entire project to ensure that it wasn’t used anywhere else.
• Increased productivity. Thanks to IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm, the development team at IT Manufactory now handles some common tasks much faster. In particular, they can rename functions and variables in a matter of seconds. Extracting methods and variables has also become a breeze. Another thing the team values is that the IDEs make sure that you don’t forget to do important things like running yarn install when creating a pull request, so they can save themselves from unnecessary headaches later.