The IntelliJ IDEA is a widely used IDE in the Java ecosystem, but many developers use multiple IDEs and may want to enhance their experience with plugins. The article suggests eight production-grade plugins that can improve coding experience, including Maven Helper for navigating dependencies, Rainbow Brackets for colorful bracket highlighting, Presentation Assistant for live coding presentations, RoboPOJOGenerator for transforming JSON output into Java objects, Snyk Vulnerability Scanner for secure dependency management, AsciiDoc for creating and editing documentation, Randomness for generating random data, and SonarLint for code quality assurance. These plugins can be freely downloaded on the marketplace and work seamlessly with IntelliJ IDEA.