What is the idea folder

Question

When I create a project in JetBrains WebStorm  a folder called  idea gets created  Is it okay if I delete it  Will it affect my project

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As of year 2020  JetBrains suggests to commit the  idea folder  The JetBrains IDEs  webstorm  intellij  android studio  pycharm  clion  etc   automatically add that folder to your git repository  if there s one   Inside the folder  idea  has been already created a  gitignore  updated by the IDE itself to avoid to commit user related settings that may contains privacy password data  It is safe  and usually useful  to commit the  idea folder

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When you use the IntelliJ IDE  all the project-specific settings for the project are stored under the  idea folder   Project settings are stored with each specific project as a set of xml files under the  idea folder  If you specify the default project settings  these settings will be automatically used for each newly created project   Check this documentation for the IDE settings and here is their recommendation on Source Control and an example  gitignore file  Note  If you are using git or some version control system  you might want to set this folder  quot ignore quot   Example - for git  add this directory to  gitignore  This way  the application is not IDE-specific

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It contains your local IntelliJ IDE configs  I recommend adding this folder to your  gitignore file    intellij configs  idea

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There is no problem in deleting this  It s not only the WebStorm IDE creating this file  but also PhpStorm and all other of JetBrains  IDEs        It is safe to delete it but if your project is from GitLab or GitHub then you will see a warning

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