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This PR does two things:

  • Update developer-tools.md to give more details about IDE setup, w.r.t. my success tries
  • Simplify the doc build using docker

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--mount type=bind,source="/path/to/spark-website",target="/spark-website" \
-w /spark-website \
docs-builder:latest \
/bin/bash -c "sh .github/run-in-container.sh"
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.github? Maybe it is better to be in dev?

<h4>IntelliJ</h4>

While many of the Spark developers use SBT or Maven on the command line, the most common IDE we
use is IntelliJ IDEA. You can get the community edition for free (Apache committers can get
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choose "Detect automatically" for `Generated source folders`, and choose "generate sources" for
`Phase to be used for folders update`.
- Go to `Settings -> Build, Execution, Deployment -> Compiler -> Scala Compiler -> Scala Compiler Server`,
pick a large enough number for `Maximum heap size, MB`, such as "16000".
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the default is 2g, which does not suffice for Spark, but 16g seems to be too aggressive, this might scare off many developers, I tested 4g also works


Make sure you have a clean start before setting up the IDE: A clean git clone of the Spark repo, install the latest
version of the IDE. If something goes wrong, clear the build outputs by `./build/sbt clean` and `./build/mvn clean`,
clear the m2 cache by `rm -rf ~/.m2/repository/*`, remove the IDE folder such as `.idea`, re-import the project into
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Looks it's IDEA-specific, can we move this to IntelliJ section?

@yaooqinn yaooqinn merged commit 90c156e into apache:asf-site Dec 26, 2025
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@cloud-fan cloud-fan deleted the ide branch December 27, 2025 13:58
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