Reduce Odoo Dev Time in Half: FireBits PyCharm Plugin Explained

What’s the FireBits Odoo Extension All About?

The FireBits Odoo Extension is a PyCharm plugin tailored for Odoo developers. It streamlines development by integrating Odoo-specific features directly into the IDE.

Why Every Odoo Developer Needs This Plugin

Standard Python tools fall short for Odoo’s framework. FireBits fills that gap with:

• Autocompletion & IntelliSense: Smart suggestions for modules, models, fields, methods.

Firebits built in odoo quick field generation

• Model/View Navigation: Jump between Python and XML instantly.

Support building boilerplate code

• Manifest & XML Support: Syntax highlighting, structure awareness.

• Scaffolding Tools: Auto-generate modules, models, views.

Selection to create New Odoo File

Page Generate and prepopulated

• Error Checking: Odoo-specific linting and validations.

• Project Structure Awareness: Recognizes and optimizes for Odoo’s module layout.

Here’s How It Saves You Hours of Work

Example: Editing XML views with odoo_xpath_attribute. The extension suggests attributes, flags syntax issues, and speeds up XPath updates.

You can use it with:

• Python files

• XML views

• Security and access files

• Controllers and more

Right-click any folder → select file type (e.g., Security View) → name the file → get boilerplate code auto-filled.

Get Started in Under 2 Minutes

1. Open PyCharm.

2. Go to Settings → Plugins.

   
   

   

   Pycharm navigate to settings

   
   

3. Search "Odoo" by FireBits.

   

   Screenshot of Pycharm Plugins Setting

4. Install and restart PyCharm.