IntelliJ IDEA is a very popular tool among Java developers. For the past few years I've been very pleased to pay Jetbrains a yearly fee for this awesome editor.
IntelliJ also has a way of creating Spring boot projects very quickly.
Go to the new project menu and select the Spring Initializr project type:
This will give us exactly the same options as STS, so refer to the previous chapter for the detailed configuration.
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