IntelliJ IDEA Using Experiences

General Operations

Note that all the below operations are based on MacOS.

Preference

    The preference window can be found at IntelliJ IDEA -> Preference.

Project Structure

    As shown in this official blog (check the left part of this page for more details about project page, module etc.), the project structure view is to letting you set project and IDE-level elements such as libraries, modules, facets, and artifacts.

    The project structure can be used to add jars or change build path. It can be found in File -> Project Structure.

    To add external jars to your project, use Project Structure -> Modules -> Dependencice -> + -> Jars or directories.

Content Root

    Setting content root is an important function for project structure view. As shown in this post, there are four types of content root source, resource, test source, test resource.

Maven

If you want maven to download from central repository automatically, make sure you selected import maven projects automatically!