Supercharge your AEM Development with the AEM VLT IntelliJ Plugin

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AEM VLT IntelliJ Plugin: Streamlining AEM Development Workflows

  by Kostiantyn Diachenko

Overview

AEM Devs - here's a free plugin that'll change how you work with JCR

If you're still toggling between IntelliJ, CRXDE Lite, and terminal windows to manage AEM content, this one's for you.

I introduces a powerful yet lightweight plugin that integrates FileVault operations right into IntelliJ. The AEM VLT IntelliJ Plugin provides a seamless way to synchronize content between your local development environment and AEM instances, leveraging the Apache Jackrabbit File Vault library for reliable content transfer. This plugin bridges the gap between your IDE and AEM repository, allowing developers to push and pull content directly from within IntelliJ IDEA.

Whether you're working in local instances - this tool makes life a lot easier.

Read more and see it in action: Full article on Medium

Get it from marketplace: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/27469-aem-vlt-tool 

Have you tried similar tools in your workflow? Share your thoughts and let's discuss improvements!

Q&A

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Thank you!

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Helpful. Thanks for sharing. One question on content sync from IntelliJ to CRXde, are there any alerts/warnings features if the content.xml files are corrupted for any reason? 

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Hi @ButhpurKiran , thanks for the question. There is a stat section shown in the notification on every push/pull operation.

Successful uploading:

With a file with broken XML:

Probably it makes sense to show it as warning "Push successful with errors" instead of "Push successful". Thanks for the good idea of improvement.

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Hi @konstantyn_diachenko Thanks for sharing I tried finding plugin in intelj community edtion for aem vault sync but plugins available were limited and that too was paid. so I was using Vscode Just to Push and Pull from AEM.

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Helpful, thank you @konstantyn_diachenko 

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Thanks @konstantyn_diachenko for sharing this. The IntelliJ integration looks like a real productivity boost compared to juggling CRXDE Lite and terminal windows. Quick question: does the plugin also support handling multi-module projects smoothly (where different developers might be syncing different parts of the repo), or is it more optimized for single-project setups? Curious how it scales in collaborative workflows.

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Hi @kautuk_sahni , thank you for the interest and nice question.

This plugin is mostly designed for local development on a local AEM instance. You may connect AEM om-prem instance and push/pull content to/from it as well. Generally, it supports handling multi-module projects, because it allows to pull/push content under certain path. In future, I am going to add support of META-INF/vault/filter.xml configuration. It will allow to sync content that are only allowed by filters. Feel free to use in collaborative workflows.