Global settings vs project settings

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/configuring-project-and-ide-settings.html#restore-defaults

Global settings

• Settings that are NOT marked with the square icon in the Settings dialog are global and apply to all existing projects of the current IntelliJ IDEA version

Project settings

• Saved into .idea folder

• Useful project settings we can copy to new projects
  • inspectionProfiles/Project_Default.xml: Code inspection settings
    • Ex: eslint warnings enabled
  • eslint.xml
  • prettier.xml
  • vcs.xml: Tells IntelliJ this project uses Git

Default settings for new projects

• Look for IntelliJ configuration folder (depending on the OS)
• Check out this file project.default.xml

How to see changed settings

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75774116/how-to-see-changed-settings-in-intellij-idea

• Open the configuration directory of IntelliJ
• Go to the directory settingsSync
• Look at the git commits of it

Auto reload Java projects

• To auto-reload a project
  • Tick option “Build project automatically”
  • Tick option “Allow auto-make to start even developed application is currently running”
• We can also run “Rebuild Project” to help tick these options for us

Windows Defender exclusion