IntelliJ Firefox Web Extension Development

Question

Learning how to use the Firefox Web Extensions API, and using IntelliJ.

Is there any way to get code / sentence completion for an API?

I followed the instructions in the answer below, but for Firefox there seems to be no complete one.

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Answer 1

Recently, Firefox WebExtension stubs (November 2017) have been added firefox-webext-browser. The steps in the answer that you linked are now valid (the corresponding changes are shown in bold):

First time setting

• Settings (File > Settings)
• Languages & Frameworks > Javascript > Libraries
• Download
• , TypeScript community stubs
• firefox-webext-browser ( , firefox-w)
• Download and Install
• OK, .

• Settings (File > Settings)
• Languages & Frameworks > Javascript > Libraries
• @types/firefox-webext-browser
• OK, .