IntelliJ is the IDE we will be using throughout this course. There are many IDEs with various pros, and cons, but we will only talk about IntelliJ throughout this class.
In this article we will be configuring IntelliJ to run Java 8, which is the first step to being able to use some of the benefits listed above.
To get our project to run in IntelliJ we will need to configure a few things:
In later sections of this class we will be working with gradle, and most of this will be pre-configured for you, but it’s still necessary to know what is happening.
SDK stands for Source Development Kit, we have to tell InteliJ which version of Java we are using, and where it exists on the machine.
Every time our project compiles output is generated. IntelliJ needs to know where to store this output.
IntelliJ will allow you to have complex projects, and use complicated file structures, but it needs to know which directories in your project is the source root, and where your tests reside.
