Launch Quarkus dev-mode from IntelliJ IDEA

[knutwannheden]

Can someone tell me what the best / recommended way is to launch a Quarkus application in dev-mode from IntelliJ IDEA on Windows? I typically use the Windows Terminal (together with Git Bash; which also has its share of problems), but I now want to write some developer documentation for my client's organization on how to work with Quarkus from IntelliJ on Windows. Here is what I've tried so far:

• Neither of the two Quarkus plugins (from JetBrains and RedHat) seems to offer any dedicated support for dev-mode
  • As I've learned this is not quite true: At least the JetBrains plugin will lauch the Quarkus application in dev mode (AFAICT by running a Maven build) and also seamlessly allows debugging a Quarkus application by automatically attaching the debugger
• Running the Maven target quarkus:dev using IntelliJ's Maven integration works, but it is far from optimal (I will try to create an issue for this), since the color output is disabled unless explicitly enabled using application.properties and even with colors enabled it is the "dumb" terminal without the nice features of the Quarkus dev-mode (e.g. status line at bottom and single keypress shortcuts without enter confirmation). I would be very interested if someone knows how to fix this!
• Using IntelliJ's terminal view. This works, but at least in my EAP build of IDEA the rendering is painfully slow (even after disabling terminal.use.conpty.on.windows!) and is of course not much of an integration as it is basically just a standard terminal within the IDE.

I have seen some "unofficial" plugins like https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/14242-quarkus-run-configs/, but I haven't tried those yet and to be honest I don't quite like the idea of yet another plugin.

So I am still looking for a good solution here. Preferably it would also allow me to debug in dev-mode (i.e. automatically attaching the debugger).

[knutwannheden]

When running the Maven target from IDEA I can get colors from Maven by adding the VM option -Djansi.passthrough=true (see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-181337#focus=Comments-27-3642799.0-0), but to get colors from Quarkus I still need to add quarkus.console.color=true and even that doesn't help getting the nice UX of dev mode as when launched from a proper terminal.

[knutwannheden]

Another update: I have now filed an issue with JetBrains to support launching Quarkus applications using the terminal emulator: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-289561. Feel free to upvote 😁