What we’ll cover in this chapter is as follows:
The IntelliJ module
The .idea folder
The out folder
The external libraries
In the previous chapter, we created a small project. It isn’t much, but it gave us a taste of project creation, compilation, and execution in IntelliJ. In this chapter, we’ll look closer at the files that make up an IntelliJ project.
Most IDEs that are advanced enough to do things beyond simple editing of source files will generate proprietary files that hold configuration, state, preferences, etc. IntelliJ isn’t an exception.
This chapter will look at some of the files that IntelliJ generates ...
