What dev tools do I need?

[SoundersDude]

There are a few threads here worth reading:

Development Tools / IDE

I’d guess that most people are probably using IntelliJ Idea (Community Edition), which is free and supports Groovy. My Hubitat hasn’t arrived yet, so no idea about debugging support etc. I’d recommend downloading the Jetbrains Toolbox App to make installation and updates easier

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Debugger tools

Following the advice here, I'm going through and putting in comments at the beginning of each method with incoming values, and everywhere the method is exiting, including any value they're returning (eg all "return"s and at the end). That's a lot of work. So, I'm not going to pull them out, and commenting them would be just as much work as removing them. Rather than commenting anything out, I'll just set a state in the initialize (eg "state.debug = true"), and have a method to output to log wh…

I've found https://groovyconsole.appspot.com/ useful if i just want to validate straight Groovy code that doesn't have any dependencies on HE.