IntelliJ syntax highlighting for jinja files (.jinja, .j2)

Question

Question is pretty much in the title. Does IntelliJ have native syntax highlighting for .jinja and .j2 files?

If not is there a plugin?

Answer 1

This plugin: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7792-yaml-ansible-support offers some support for jinja files.

To ensure that this plugin is associated with jinja files:

• Go to File > Preferences > Editor > File Types
• Under Recognized File Types scroll down to YAML/Ansible and select it

• Under Registered Patterns click the + icon and enter *.jinja.

  

With this configuration in place your jinja files will open into this plugin. If they do not, then jinja files must be already associated with one of the other Recognized File Types in which case you'll need to scroll through them to find the culprit and remove *.jinja from its Registered Patterns.

Answer 2

With recent version of Intellij, you don't need any plugin any more.

• Go to File > Settings > Editor > File Types
• Under Recognized Files Types, choose Jinja 2 Template
• Under File Name Patterns add *.j2 for jinja2, and/or *.jinja for jinja

For Ansible yaml jinja 2 templates:

• Under Recognized Files Types, choose YAML/Ansible
• Under File Name Patterns add *.yaml.j2 and *yml.j2