Paul Everitt

PyCharm Developer Advocate at JetBrains

Paul is a Developer Advocate at JetBrains, focusing on Python and the Web. Before that, Paul was a co-founder of Zope Corporation, taking the first open source application server through $14M of funding. Paul has bootstrapped both the Python Software Foundation and the Plone Foundation. Prior to that, Paul was an officer in the US Navy, starting www.navy.mil in 1993.

Resolve Conflicts

Let the IDE help in the tricky business of resolving merge conflicts.

Move Work Aside With Stash

Use git's stash to move uncommitted work aside temporarily.

Move Work Aside With Shelve

Move uncommitted work aside when you need to work on another branch.

Rebase Feature Branch

Get your feature branch caught up with changes on the main branch.

Compare With Branch

See the changes in another branch's commits.

See Unsynced Commits

See what's happening on that other branch.

Browse Branch's Commits

Review the changes in main before bringing them to your branch.

See VCS Changed Lines In Gutter

Quickly spot which parts of your file have changed since the last commit.

Only Commit Some Changes

Unselect files or changed regions within files during the commit process.

Fix Your Work with Amend Commit

Put some missing work back into your last commit, before you push.

Use Local History to Avoid Disaster

Use the IDE's built-in history facility to recover changes when VCS can't help you.

Undo Last Commit

Undo a commit...without misery.

Edit Commit Message

Edit the wording in your last commit message, after you committed.

Debugging TSX With Chrome

Sometimes you need to debug in the browser. Use the IDE to remote control Chrome during debugging.

React, TypeScript, and TDD

How to write React applications in TypeScript using TDD, highlighting features of the IDE

Class Components With Props

Make a simple class component with a single prop, again with a TypeScript interface describing the props.

Class Components With State

Make a very simple class component with local counter state, then make a type definition for that state.

Presentation and Container Components

Follow the React pattern of container/presentation components by refactoring the code and tests.

Debugging During Testing With NodeJS

Use the visual debugger in the IDE for smarter TDD.

Project Setup

Create a React+TypeScript project with the create-react-app scaffolding tool.

Project Cleanup

Clean out some unneeded code from the default app, tweak some configuration in the IDE, and tour a few more features.

Rich Events and Testing

Add event handling to a stateful class component by first writing tests during development.

Test-first development with Jest in the IDE.

TSX and ES6

Using React and TypeScript means good JSX and ES6+ support in the IDE. This section shows some useful features from both.