
This is what it will look like if you’ve previously opened projects in IntelliJ IDEA. Let’s take a quick look at the Projects tab again. The Learn IntelliJ IDEA tab helps you to learn the IDE with a range of resources for you to choose from. IntelliJ IDEA Community and Ultimate come bundled with some selected plugins. In the Plugins tab, you can view plugins in the marketplace as well as see those that you have installed. As you’d expect, you can search for what you want to change in the top-left hand corner. The same settings are also available inside a project, and then they apply to that project. The All settings link in the Welcome screen shows you settings that apply to all IntelliJ IDEA new projects. In 2020.3 you can also sync IntelliJ IDEA with your operating system theme. On the Customize tab you can edit preferences that will affect all your new IntelliJ IDEA projects. Let’s take a quick look around before we start a new project as it’s worth familiarising yourself with some of these changes.


If you’ve not opened an IntelliJ IDEA Project before, you’ll see these options in the Project tab of the Welcome screen in IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3. We used the Ultimate edition of IntelliJ IDEA in the screencast to show you all the options for the different types of projects.

There’s also a more detailed matrix available. This image shows the options available in Community versus those available in our Ultimate edition. In our Ultimate edition there are more project types including Java Frameworks such as Spring. The New Project Wizard can help you to create standard Java projects with different types of build systems and other common project types. This provides an easy way for people to skim the content quickly if they prefer reading to watching, and to give the reader/watcher code samples and links to additional information. This blog post covers the same material as the video. You can use this wizard to create new IntelliJ IDEA projects from scratch or to set up modularised projects.
