Starter Documentation

[vdorie]

I'm trying to build off of the summer-ebt example that Luigi set up on his last day, but I'm having trouble getting the base install to work. I'm wondering if it wouldn't be possible for someone who is familiar with the setup to go back over the docs from a clean install and flesh out any missing steps or assumptions. Speaking as a person not familiar with Spring Boot, here are some things that I'm struggling with at the moment:

• How should the IntelliJ project be initialized? Do I try and open the root of the repo as a folder click on the little gradle button that pops up? Is something else supposed to be able to be initialized from the repo?
• One of first steps in the instructions points to setting up an environment file, which links to another set of instructions that requires a configuration. What type should that new configuration be? Or is there something automatic that is supposed to pop up?
• What specific steps from the Form Flow library are necessary to setup IntelliJ? When I get to Testing, it fails while clearly indicating that Form Flow is not installed.
• When looking into installing Form Flow locally, the instruction just reads "Build the form-flow library jar" without explaining how.

To be more clear, I'm not looking for help with these specific items. It would just be great if there was a straightforward set of end-to-end instructions for a person to go from a clean install to a working system that they could tweak and see live results.

Thanks in advance!