Intellij scala and SBT dependencies - enhancing the development experience

I'm the happy owner of an Intellij Idea licence which I love, and as stated on a recent article I started learning Scala not long ago and I'm having some trouble to feel the SBT love

While playing a bit with Scala/SBT and IntelliJ I realized that the support for it is not great there are a few plugins bundled such as the SBT executor which adds some functionality, but no syntax highlighting for the .sbt files and more importantly no dependency management inside the IDE which for me is a deal breaker (Albeit since I'm pretty new to the Scala world I might be doing it wrong...)

Luckily a few day ago I found this sbt plugin nightly builds which is a new IntelliJ plugin that will add some sugar to your Scala/SBT development such as dependency management.

You will find all the installation instructions in the link above as well as information on the plugin features

Now as stated on the website this plugin is still Alpha so there are still some rough edges and quircks. I for example had the

Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.


Consult IDE log for more details (Help | Show Log)

Which can easily be solved by following the instructions over at Intellij's support website