.idea folder: JetBrains IDE project

Introduction

IntelliJ IDEA and the other JetBrains IDEs keep a project’s settings in a folder named .idea at its top. Each topic has its own XML file. The project’s modules are listed there, and each module has an .iml file of its own.

A folder dropped on this site is named as an IntelliJ project when it has a .idea folder or an .iml file, and the XML files open with a list of their components.

Structure

Each file is XML. The usual root is project, holding one component element per subsystem, named by its name attribute. What is inside a component belongs to that part of the IDE, and new components appear with new IDE versions.

File	Holds
`modules.xml`	The project’s modules, in the `ProjectModuleManager` component: `module` elements with `filepath` and `fileurl`.
`misc.xml`	Project-wide settings, including the JDK, in `ProjectRootManager`.
`vcs.xml`	Which folders are under version control.
`workspace.xml`	Personal state: open files and run history. Usually left out of version control.
`runConfigurations/`	Shared run configurations, one file each, with a `component` root named `ProjectRunConfigurationManager`.
`libraries/`	Shared library definitions, one file each.

Paths are written with macros such as $PROJECT_DIR$ , which the IDE replaces with the project’s folder.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project version="4">
  <component name="ProjectModuleManager">
    <modules>
      <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/app.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/app.iml" />
    </modules>
  </component>
</project>

A modules.xml listing one module.

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