Introduction

• What Spring Initializr is
• How to use https://start.spring.io to generate new Spring Boot Projects
• How to make sense of Spring Initializr Dependencies
• What dependencies you need for a typical web app project
• Which IDE to use to follow along this guide
• Where to download id
• How to successfully import Spring Boot projects into IntelliJ IDEA
• A look at your new Spring Boot project's maven directory structure
• A look at the pom.xml file
• Starting your Spring Boot project for the first time