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Stop Pasting Tokens: OAuth2 Login for JetBrains IDE Plugins

calendar_today June 1, 2026 person Jakub Chrzanowski domain jetbrains

The moment a plugin needs account data, a simple API call turns into an authentication problem. The bad shortcut is familiar: ask the user to create a personal access token (PAT), make them paste it into settings, and hope it never leaks. For a JetBrains IDE plugin, use this flow instead: the user clicks the […]

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