Install IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition for Free and Create Your First Spring Boot App

Learn how to download and install IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition for free and set up your first Spring Boot project with a simple Hello World example. 👉 Help me reach my first 1k subscribers:    / @techwithjamesyt   What You’ll Learn: How to download and install IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (free version) The difference between IntelliJ Ultimate and Community Edition How to create a new Spring Boot project using Spring Initializr How to run your first Spring Boot application in IntelliJ How to build a simple REST endpoint that returns “Hello World” Timestamps: 00:00 – Intro: Download IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 00:25 – IntelliJ Ultimate vs Community Edition 00:45 – Downloading IntelliJ for Mac 00:55 – Installing IntelliJ (drag & drop to Applications) 01:07 – Opening IntelliJ & existing projects 01:13 – Creating a new project (Spring Boot locked in Community Edition) 01:39 – Using Spring Initializr from browser 02:01 – Setting up project details (Java, Maven, dependencies) 02:53 – Downloading & importing the project into IntelliJ 03:17 – Running the Spring Boot app in IntelliJ 03:49 – Testing project on localhost:8080 04:06 – Creating a REST endpoint (Hello World) 04:45 – Running again & testing endpoint 05:01 – Success! Hello World in browser 05:08 – Wrap up & call to subscribe #java #springboot #intellij