I’m writing frontend in Java and need a fast DI (Spring, you’re out)

So I picked Dagger

I decided to get a feel of Dagger. I cloned this Baeldung project, built the dagger module (tutorials.di-modules.dagger), ran the DaggerUnitTest. It passed, but the IDE was none the wiser about Dagger’s generated sources, such as DaggerVehiclesComponent

the generated source file’s identifier is colored in red

I can simply add target.generated-sources.annotations as another source route

the aforementioned directory added as a source route

it’s then colored as expected in the directory tree

But I very much doubt it’s how I’m supposed to do it (when different types of directories intersect, it feels wrong)

Here’s what my Annotation processors settings look like

annotation processors settings for the parent

annotation processor settings for the dagger module itself

This question’s answers seem to suggest exactly that

So how do I make IntelliJ aware of Dagger’s generated sources (the right way)?