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title: Using DevKit
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> **NOTE** For new projects, it is recommend to use [Gradle](/tutorials/build_system.md).

_Plugin DevKit_ is a bundled IntelliJ IDEA plugin for developing plugins for the IntelliJ Platform using IntelliJ IDEA's
own build system. It provides its custom SDK type and a set of actions for building plugins within the IDE.

In this section:

* [Setting Up a Development Environment](setting_up_environment.md)
* [Creating a Plugin Project](creating_plugin_project.md)
* [Creating an Action](/tutorials/action_system/working_with_custom_actions.md)
* [Running and Debugging a Plugin](running_and_debugging_a_plugin.md)
* [Deploying a Plugin](deploying_plugin.md)
* [Publishing a plugin to plugin repository](publishing_plugin.md)