External tools
Configure third-party command-line applications as external tools to run them from GoLand. For example, your workflow may require running a specific script, code generator, analyzer, preprocessor or postprocessor, some database utility, and so on. By configuring it as an external tool, GoLand provides a dedicated action for it, which you can run from the main menu, from certain context menus, assign a shortcut to it, or run it when launching a specific run configuration.
You can use built-in IDE macros to pass context-dependent command-line arguments to the tool, such as the current file or your project source path. If necessary, GoLand will print the tool's output to the console.
Add a local external tool
This example demonstrates how to add OptiPNG as an external tool and use it to optimize images in your project.
Press Control+Alt+S to open the IDE settings and then select .
Click
and specify the tool's settings.
For more information, see External Tools.
In our case,
OptiPNGwill be run with the-o4 $FilePath$arguments. You can use macros that can refer to the project name, the current file path, a path to the PHP executable, and so on. Clicking
will open the Macros dialog that lists all available macros and their values.Click OK to add the tool and then apply the changes.
Run the added local external tool
To open the selected file in the newly added toolimage, do one of the following:
From the main menu, select .
Right-click a file in the Project tool window and select from the context menu.
Create a shortcut to run the tool.
Press Control+Alt+S to open the IDE settings and then select . Find the Optimize PNG action under the External Tools node, and assign a shortcut for it.
When you run the tool, the output is displayed in the Run tool window.
Run the added tool on a remote server
Do one of the following:
From the main menu, select and the name of the added remote external tool.
Create a shortcut to run the tool.
Press Control+Alt+S to open the IDE settings and then select . Find the action with the name of your configured remote external tool, and assign a shortcut for it.
After you specify the host, port, and credentials, GoLand will connect to the server via SSH and run the date command, returning the output to the Run tool window in GoLand.
Web browsers
You can use a web browser to open any file from your project. By default, it is used to preview the output of an HTML file or run and debug web applications.
Open a file in a web browser
To open a file that is intended to be rendered by a web browser (HTML, XML, JSP, and so on), do one of the following:
Open the file in the editor and press Alt F2.
Right-click the file in the Project tool window and select Open in Browser.
From the main menu, select View | Open in Browser.
Use the browser popup in the top right part of the editor window (appears on hover). Click the browser button to open the web server file URL, or Shift+LeftClick it to open the local file URL.
The Open in Browser action is not available for other file types. However, you can still execute it using Find Action Control+Shift+A.
View and configure the list of browsers
In the Settings dialog (Control+Alt+S), select Tools | Web Browsers and Preview.
If a browser was installed using a standard procedure, the alias in the Path field should point to the right location. If it does not, specify the path to the corresponding executable file.
Use custom profile and settings
You can configure custom profiles for Firefox and Chrome family browsers.
In the Settings dialog (Control+Alt+S), select Tools | Web Browsers and Preview.
Select the browser in the list and click
.For Firefox, specify the path to the profiles.ini file and choose the profile to use. For more information, see Firefox browser profile.
For Chrome, select Use custom user data directory and specify the location of the user data directory.
You can also specify additional command-line options to use when running Chrome from GoLand. For more information, open
chrome://flagsin the Chrome address bar.