title: How to import .ipr file for configuring Apache Kafka with Intellij IDEA?
body: <p>I am trying to debug Kafka's source code with IntelliJ IDEA and for that I have to setup the IDE first. The official documentation of Kafka provides with the steps and so far, I have completed all of them to run Kafka from the source.</p>
  <p>Then there is a step named <a href="https://github.com/kebab-mai-haddi/kafka#building-ide-project" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Building IDE Project</a> which has the command:</p>
  <pre><code>./gradlew idea
  </code></pre>
  <p>The output of the above successful command is:</p>
  <pre><code>&gt; Configure project :
  Starting build with version 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT using Gradle 6.8.3, Java 1.8 and Scala 2.13.5
  
  &gt; Task :idea
  Generated IDEA project at file:///Users/aviralsrivastava/dev/kafka/kafka.ipr
  </code></pre>
  <p>I installed Intellij IDEA but unable to figure out how do I import the above file and what purpose does it serve?</p>