Now is the time to pick the IDE. Though there are many IDEs used for Spring Boot projects, I would recommend using Spring Tool Suite (STS), as it is open source and easy to manage projects with. In my case, I use sts-3.8.2.RELEASE. You can download the latest STS from this link: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all. In most cases, you may not need to install; just unzip the file and start using it:
After extracting the STS, you can start using the tool by running STS.exe (shown in the preceding screenshot).
In STS, you can import the project by selecting Existing Maven Projects, shown as follows:
After importing ...
