How-to document to set up IntelliJ quickly on Mac OS.

Configurations for Github, Gradle and IntelliJ

• Step 1. Create an empty repository in Github
• Step 2. Clone the project to local
• Step 3. Open IntelliJ and select open this project
• Step 4. Select “Import project from external model”
• Step 5. Because this is a new project, so we can select “Create directories for empty content roots automatically” and choose “use gradle wrapper task for configuration” and click “Finish”
• Step 6. After gradle finish loading all the configurations. Open the Gradle tab and select “init” task.
• Step 7. If there’s no corresponding src module, just right click the projeck and create a new module named ‘src’. Gradle will automatically create main and test folder for us.

The environment is ready.

Tips:

• If you want to run gradle script, please use the gradlew in your project’s root folder, e.g. ./gradlew init or use brew to install gradle

References

• Working with Gradle in IntelliJ

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