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For "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS" (https://stratospheric.dev/) we used IntelliJ IDEA.

For a technical ebook with lots of code samples using our trusted IDE just was the natural choice.

How did you do this? I mean the combination of prose and code samples. I would love to see more.

We used the Markdown plugin that comes bundled with IntelliJ IDEA alongside this Mermaid plugin for diagrams: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/20146-mermaid

As for the code samples we simply used Markdown's backtick syntax: https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#code

Thanks!