This Article is going to accelerate your Mule development through easy shortcuts
Anypoint Studio is an IDE provided by Mulesoft for building and testing integrations, This blog contains some useful shortcuts and tips to ease your development and play around by creating the custom shortcuts
#Tip 1 Organize in just a click 🥳
ctrl + shift + f
Usage: used to beautify, organize, justify the code, ( works for all, json, xml, java)
Select the entire block/ part of code and then use this shortcut
Before
After
#Tip 2 Ease your task with Autocomplete 😎
Isn't it boring to type the entire code all by yourself? Thanks to Anypoint Studio's code completion feature, you now have a friend working alongside you.
Works with: JAVA, Dataweave, and pretty much everything
ctrl + space bar
Write a part of code, and then press ctrl + space to see the auto-generated suggestions to proceed further
Usually, the suggestions are auto prompted but now you know the shortcut of how to get it
#Tip 3 Zoom in/Zoom out 🕵
When it comes to Mule flows, you can zoom in and out, but it's not as simple as pinching in and out
Works with mule flows
ctrl + //zoom in
ctrl - // zoom out
#Tip 4 Search within Everything 🔍
Everything? yes when I mean everything I literally mean everything
Search within settings
You might have your favorite settings but now you forgot where it exists?
You might need to change something, but you need to click a lot to find it and change it, you don't know where exactly to change it, well there is one single solution for all these problems.
ctrl + 3
The shortcut will display a magic search box, where you can easily search for your favorite settings
This works for searches within settings, but if you want to search within a code file, well you have a well-known shortcut for that
Search within file
ctrl + f
- Use this shortcut in code files to search within the code/file
- Use this shortcut in message flow to search within the Mule components Palette
Search References
ctrl + alt + g
this command can be used to search for all the references,
select a part of text and use this shortcut to search within the references
#Tip 5 Finding its Pair 🕵🏻♀️
Finding the other matching socks as well as the matching bracket within large files is difficult, but now you can do it with just a click!
ctrl + shift + p
Set the pointer on the opening bracket and use this shortcut, its going to find out the closing bracket and move the pointer for you.
It works with xml, java in anypoint studio,
#Tip 6 Switching between tabs 🔁
As a mule developer, it’s quite a task to shift between multiple files all the time, a shortcut to easily switch between tabs could be super helpful,
ctrl + page dn // for next tab
ctrl + page up // for previous tab
✨in the further points we are going to see how to edit and customize these shortcuts,
#Tip 7 Standard Shortcuts 💥
Below are a few standard daily usage shortcuts,
To run the mule flow
ctrl + f11
(or)
ctrl + alt + x , m
⚠️ if you are using the second command then , first press the ctrl + alt + x and then press ‘m’ key
To debug the mule flow
ctrl + alt + d , m
⚠️ first press the ctrl + alt + d and then press ‘m’ key to debug the flow
To run the Munit
ctrl + shift + m , r
To debug the Munit
ctrl + shift + m , d
Shift easily between message flow / Global elements / Configuration xml
alt + f7
A box appears like this, by which we can shift easily between them
New API Specification file
ctrl + alt + m , s
New Mule configuration file
ctrl + alt + m , n
New Mule Project
ctrl + alt + m , p
New RAML API Fragment File
ctrl + alt + m , f
#Tip 8 Shortcuts to OPEN
Open Flow
There could be multiple flows within the mule project, to open one within all of them, we can just, use this shortcut and search for the flow to find it easily.
ctrl + shift + f
Open search dialogue
ctrl + h
Open API Resource
ctrl + shift + p
#Tip 9 Perspective 🕹️
This is one of my favorite commands.
To change the mule perspective lot of times, we choose to reset the perspective, one shortcut to perform it, is
Alt + w , r , r , r
To use the command, press alt + w combinedly and then press ‘r’ key for three times
#Tip 10 Custom shortcuts 🛠️
Is your favorite shortcut not listed? Or do you want to create one for your own use? You can make your own custom shortcuts.
Fortunately, there is a way to accomplish this: Window → Preferences → General → Keys
Search for the one you wish
Now you can change the shortcut the way you wish!!!
Glad you liked all these shortcuts.
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