Developer Tools

Learn how the Spring Boot devtools module improves development time.

We'll cover the following

Devtools dependency
Automatic restart
LiveReload server

We created a simple RecommendationsController in the last lesson that received a request from localhost/movies and returned a list of movies. If we make a change in the movies to be returned by the controller and execute the service again, the change will not be picked up unless the server is stopped and started again. Restarting the application takes a long time and doing that over and over again causes unwanted delays at the developer’s end.

Devtools dependency

To counter this problem, Spring Boot offers a Developer Tool that supports live reloads. This JAR is provided by the Spring Boot framework and is useful for development-specific debugging. To use developer tools, add the following dependency to pom.xml file:

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Introduction

Spring Basics

Spring In-depth

Spring Boot

Spring JDBC

Spring Data JPA

Spring REST Fundamentals

Spring REST Advanced Operations and Error Management

Database Relationships in Spring

Spring Aspect Orientated Programming (AOP)

Configuring a Basic Enterprise Web Application

Spring MVC Fundamentals

Spring MVC Advanced Concepts

Unit Testing in Spring

Interview Questions

Epilogue

Developer Tools

Devtools dependency