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title: Building Plugins with Gradle
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The [gradle-intellij-plugin](https://github.com/JetBrains/gradle-intellij-plugin) Gradle plugin is the recommended solution for building IntelliJ plugins. 
The plugin takes care of the dependencies of your plugin project - both the base IDE and other plugin dependencies.

> **NOTE** If a new plugin will be Scala-based, a dedicated SBT plugin [sbt-idea-plugin](https://github.com/JetBrains/sbt-idea-plugin) is available. 

The gradle-intellij-plugin provides tasks to run the IDE with your plugin and to publish your plugin to the [JetBrains plugins repository](/plugin_repository/index.md). 
To make sure that your plugin is not affected by [API changes](/reference_guide/api_changes_list.md) which may happen between major releases of the platform, you can easily build your plugin against many versions of the base IDE.

> **WARNING** When adding additional repositories to your Gradle build script, make sure to always use HTTPS protocol.

> **Note** Please make sure to always upgrade to the latest version of `gradle-intellij-plugin`.
Follow releases on [GitHub](https://github.com/JetBrains/gradle-intellij-plugin/releases). 
 
Below are a series of guides to developing and deploying Gradle-based IntelliJ Platform Plugins:  
*  [1. Getting Started with Gradle-Based Plugins](build_system/prerequisites.md)
*  [2. Configuring Gradle-Based Plugins](build_system/gradle_guide.md)
*  [3. Deploying a Plugin with Gradle](build_system/deployment.md)