Implementing the backend

Having established a sense of direction by specifying the various use cases of our application and setting up a database for our application to connect to, let us go straight ahead with its implementation. Open IntelliJ IDEA and create a new project with the Spring initializer. Upon clicking Next, IntelliJ will retrieve the Spring initializer, after which you will be asked to provide certain details for the application. Do the following before proceeding to the next stage of the setup:

  1. Input com.example as the group ID.
  2. Enter place-reviewer as the artifact ID.
  3. Select Maven Project as the project type if it is not already selected.
  4. Leave the packaging option and Java version the way they are.
  5. Select Kotlin as the ...

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