Introduction
I recently advocated for the demise of the specialized Liferay
IDEs/IDE Plugins.
Advocating for them to be decommissioned is one thing, but
sharing how you can live without them can be another thing...
So I thought I'd blog about how you can use a vanilla, off the
shelf version of Eclipse/Intellij along with Blade & Gradle to
accomplish similar...
History of the Liferay IDEs
I first started developing for Liferay version 4.2.3. Back then,
we used what was called the "extension environment" to
handle Liferay customization. This was an Ant-based environment with
fairly complicated build scripts that was responsible for building
the deployable Liferay.
And we were building portlets per the portlet...
