The tutorial will teach you the practical skills needed to create any Jira customisation. We're going to create an app, step by step. The app will solve a real user problem and will be available on the Atlassian's marketplace.
Official Atlassian’s tutorial is excellent. But, it doesn't cover all the aspects of Jira plugin development. Also describes them in isolation. There’s no single tutorial, which explains how to write a Jira plugin from the beginning to the end. This one will teach you how to write a complete Jira plugin.
Now, when we have a working project, it is time to see the code like programmers do. The easiest way is to use IDE like IntelliJ. This time we are going to pair IntelliJ with our project.
The project is ready, and IntelliJ can open it. It's time to go through the project's files and customize the plugin.
It's 4th article, and we didn't code yet. If you're eager to touch the code, then I'm going to disappoint you. You need to wait for the next one. This time I'm focusing on finding a right place for our plugin.
We already have chosen the place where we'd like to inject our customization. It's half of the success, and now we're going to find a way to make it happen.
Introducing integration tests at the beginning of plugin development is good. It may be even impossible to click through all the versions we'd like to support.
I don't think we can find a single person patient enough to run integration tests locally on the every supported Jira version. It's time to run a CI server.