Spring Boot application can't resolve the org.springframework.boot package

Question

I have set up a spring boot project using the Spring Initializer, I tried several times to create a new project or play with the dependencies, everything seems to be in plac

Answer 1

Mine worked by adding

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-autoconfigure
    2.1.3.RELEASE

instead of directly using other main dependencies, I have no idea why.