I want to create a Spring Boot project from scratch in IntelliJ IDE. As there is also a way to use Spring Initializr to create a Spring Boot project and then download the zip and import to IDE.
As it is bit time consuming process to do that every-time, so I checked over the internet to see if there exists a plugin for the same which automatically loads Spring Initializr onto IntelliJ and found there is one named with Spring Assistant.
But this plugin is not visible in IntelliJ Plugins Marketplace. So I went over to JetBrains site for this plugin and landed on this page. This url is the download link for this plugin and is available for all versions. I am using the Community version.
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10229-spring-assistant/versions
After downloading and importing the plugin, Spring Assistant option was visible under the File -> New Project section. But after specifying the project details, the dependency screen was not loading up (shown in last image) and I also get errors at the bottom of my IDE which says the plugin doesn't belongs to JetBrains. After this I also seem to feel IntelliJ IDE getting hanged. I have attached images for better understanding.
As anyone else faced a similar problem, because if this doesn't work then the only option is to go to Initializr every time.
