40 Tips & Tricks for Spring in IntelliJ IDEA

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Forty concrete IntelliJ IDEA tricks for Spring development, shown as live coding with an Early Access build and a demo project on GitHub. Shows auto-detect Spring facet and create contexts so gutter icons, component-scan lists and a dependency-graph appear; the graph flags import cycles. Demonstrates inspections and quick-fixes (field injection → constructor, add qualifier), Spring EL autocompletion and refactoring, profile switching that activates/deactivates beans, Spring MVC view navigation, caching support, and Spring Boot starter/init integration with auto-configuration visualization.

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1. 0:00Spring in IntelliJ IDEA intro
2. 3:58Spring facets setup
3. 10:43Spring config graphs
4. 17:15Avoid field injection
5. 21:32Spring profiles in IntelliJ
6. 24:43Spring caching tips
7. 27:31Spring EL support
8. 33:18XML config tricks
9. 39:04Spring MVC navigation
10. 43:17Spring Boot setup
11. 46:54Spring Boot auto-config
12. 52:14Q&A

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