Using Snyk in an IDE

Let's look at how you'll authenticate the Snyk plug-in for your local IDE to your Snyk account.

Snyk has introduced OAUTH2 to the authentication workflow, if you wish to learn more, see Plugin Authentication for Jetbrains, Eclipse, VS Code, Visual Studio

When you scan an open source file, Snyk provides information about issues and provides recommendations on how to fix the issues.

When you scan a code project file, Snyk Code provides information about potential security and quality issues and provides recommendations and sample remediation examples.

When you scan an infrastructure as code project file, Snyk IaC provides information about configuration issues.