Best IDE / Plugin for develop Solidity

Question

I am developing some complex solidity smartcontracts (using some external libraries such as Oraclize). The think is that the IDE that I am using for the moment Remix and Oraclize IDE dosen't fit with the requirments that I want, I need:

• To compile, deploy and test a smartcontract that can use Oraclize library
• Have the files in local and be allowed to use a private github repository
• Compile the contracts only when clicking Ctrl + S
• Have a desktop environment (Like IntellIJ or Atom)

I have tried some plugins like etheratom (With lots of smartcontracts the program brokes), Intellij solidity plugin (In this one I don't know how to compile and deploy the contracts).

EDIT:

And I missed a very important feature that I want and that dosen't have any IDE that I have tryed.

• Give the exact position of errors like invalid opcode

I have serched a lot and I didn't find anything.

Answer 1

Since Solidity is relatively young a lot of actions has to be done manually for setting up compiling and deployment process.

In fact there are tools to help you the processes

1. Truffle is a development environment and testing framework and asset aiming to make life as an Ethereum developer easier.

2. Ganache-CLI or Ganache-GUI - Ethereum RPC client for testing and development.

3. Intellij-Solidity   is a plugin for Itnellij-based IDEs offers syntax highlighting, code formatting and autocomplete for Solidity files.

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Solidity Development: Setting up environment

Answer 2

IMHO, as a previous user of Atom and IntelliJ, I will recommend VSCode.

I find these extentions really great for developing smart contracts with solidity on VSCode:

1. Material Icon Theme, for better distinguish folders and files;
2. solidity or solidity-solhint, Ethereum Solidity Language for Visual Studio Code;
3. Trailing spaces, highlight trailing spaces and delete them;
4. Rainbow Brackets, for cool brackets; :)
5. Indent rainbow, for better and easier indentation
6. GitHistory and GitLens.

You should have a better experience with that and then try to test the code in the plugin.