The tools available in the Spring ecosystem make it easy to get started with building applications. However, the same is true for Quarkus, which has many additional features and capabilities aimed at improving the developer experience. A Spring developer can quickly get started working with a Quarkus project and immediately become more productive, as we'll see in this article. Plug-ins and tooling are available for most major IDEs, including VSCode, IntelliJ, and Eclipse.
Creating a new project
A Spring developer’s starting point is the Spring Initializr, which can be used directly from the website, as shown in Figure 1, or via plug-ins for most major IDEs.