can not find the spring boot plugin in intellij idea

Question

I'm following a tutorial where the guy shows how to create a configuration using th "spring boot" support plugin but this pluugin is not available for me, neither in the list of templates nor in the Marketplace where i tried to add it, the tutorial is on a MAC and i'am on a windows is that the cause or there is something else ?

this is a screenshot from the tutorial :

Answer 1

File -> Settings -> Plugins there is the Spring Boot Plugin ... when i deactivate it, spring boot template is missing.

Maybe you use the community edition? It doesnt support spring boot intellij features.

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/editions_comparison_matrix.html

You can use https://start.spring.io/ and download a gradle/maven project.