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title: Creating Your First Plugin
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This documentation section will help you get started with developing plugins for the *IntelliJ Platform*. You can use either [IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition](https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/) or [IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate](https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/) as your IDE.  Both include the complete set of plugin development tools. To become more familiar with *IntelliJ IDEA*, please refer to the [IntelliJ IDEA Web Help](https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/).

In this section:

* [Setting Up a Development Environment](getting_started/setting_up_environment.md)
* [Creating a Plugin Project](getting_started/creating_plugin_project.md)
* [Build Number Ranges](getting_started/build_number_ranges.md)
* [Creating an Action](getting_started/creating_an_action.md)
* [Running and Debugging a Plugin](getting_started/running_and_debugging_a_plugin.md)
* [Deploying a Plugin](getting_started/deploying_plugin.md)
* [Plugin Compatibility with IntelliJ Platform Products](getting_started/plugin_compatibility.md)
* [Publishing a plugin to plugin repository](getting_started/publishing_plugin.md)