Spring Boot Devtools Configuration Intellij

This article contains Spring Boot Devtools Configuration Intellij using maven with examples.

Spring Boot Devtools provide following functionality

• Automatic Restart

  Applications that use spring-boot-devtools will automatically restart whenever files on the classpath change.

• Exclude Resources

  It possible that some resource can be exclude when restart

  spring.devtools.restart.exclude=static/**,public/**

• Watch Addtional Path

  You may want your application to be restarted or reloaded when you make changes to files that are not on the classpath. To do so, use thespring.devtools.restart.additional-paths property to configure additional paths to watch for changes.

Add maven dependency to pom.xml

<dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
            <optional>true</optional>
        </dependency>

 For Intellij perform following steps

Step 1 : Enable Build Project automatically (File -> Setting)

Spring Boot Devtools Configuration Intellij

Step 2: Enable registry (Press Cltr + Alt + Shift + \)

Spring Boot Enable DevTool Intellij

Step 3: Enable compiler running

Spring Boot Enable DevTool Intellij

Now edit your Java Files or resource IDE will automatically restart spring boot application.

Refrences:

Spring Boot Devtools Configuration Doc