Features
The template or better boilerplate comes with a lot of features that are useful if you want to develop high quality plugins. However you don't need to use all of them, you can simply remove the features you don't need.

• Ready to use gradle project with lots of utility tasks
• Automatic generation of plugin.yaml based of project properties
• Integrated Spigot test server with a one click build, copy plugin and start debugging in IntelliJ task
• ShadowJAR plugin and task to easily ship your needed dependencies with your plugin
• Example unit test setup including MockBukkit and AssertJ
• Code coverage report including an upload task to codecov
• Fully integrated semantic-release pipeline
• Automatic changelog generation based on commit messages
• Github actions workflow for build and release
• Publishing of maven artifacts to GitHub packages
  no more need for self hosted nexus or artifactory server
• GitHub issue templates for bug and feature requests
• Contributing and Code of Conduct guidelines
• Nice badges to show of your project

Quickstart setup

• Create a new Github project using this template.
• Clone the new repository and open it in IntelliJ.
• Go into the gradle.properties file and update the following variables:
  • group: your-maven-group-id (e.g.: io.github.silthus)
  • pluginName: YourPluginName
  • author: YourName
• Update the root.projectName inside settings.gradle. This will be your artifactId.
• Delete the CHANGELOG.md. It will be generated on your first release.
• Update the README to point to your project and spigot resource id.
• Rename the java package and classes to match your project.
• Then execute the Server run configuration and the template will run the Spigot BuildTools to download and build spigot or paper for you.