Unlock Interactive Kotlin Development with the New Kotlin Notebook Plugin

IntelliJ IDEA has announced the Kotlin Notebook plugin, now available as an experimental first release.

Notebooks are interactive tools that combine code, visualizations, and text into a single document, allowing developers to write and run code cells, view results, and document their thought process in one place. They are widely adopted for rapid prototyping, analysis, and data‑science tasks.

The Kotlin Notebook plugin adds powerful interactive development capabilities to IntelliJ IDEA, complementing the IDE's full Kotlin language support and integrating flexible browser‑based visualizations.

Plugin download: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/16340-kotlin-notebook

Kotlin Notebook also offers extensive library integration options. Developers can easily use them with a simple command: %use libraryName For library authors, this command serves as a bridge that enables:

Downloading binary files from any Maven repository.

Including initial imports.

Executing code during initialization.

Running code before and after each cell execution.

Pre‑processing code for each cell.

Invoking callbacks when creating certain variable types.

Creating custom renderers for various types defined in the library.

And more.

Overall, this provides near‑unlimited possibilities for creating interactive user experiences, and thanks to Kotlin's static and AOT typing, automatic dynamic code generation offers a higher level of flexibility and scalability.

For comprehensive documentation, see: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-jupyter/blob/master/docs/libraries.md

Release announcement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/zh-hans/kotlin/2023/07/kotlin-notebook/