I'm building a web server using Spring Boot, Kotlin and IntelliJ and am learning a lot. I added Thymeleaf but decided later than it didn't meet my needs, removed it from the POM and rebuilt the project.
On startup, Thymeleaf was still looking for the /templates/ folder (which I'd also removed), even though Thymeleaf was no longer a part of the project, supposedly. A project-wide search (shift-ctrl-F) for thyme, case-folding, found nothing, so I closed the project and used the GNU find command-line utility to search for thyme in the project hierarchy. That found references in project.iml and some .xml files under .idea/libraries. I removed those, re-opened and rebuilt the project, and it no longer mentioned /templates/ or Thymeleaf on startup.
So my question is: what would have been the 'official' non-hacky way of removing the Thymeleaf package from my project? I am now wondering what other unwanted libraries are in the project, and how I should remove them.
