spring boot hotswap with Intellij IDE

Question

I have a spring boot application running fine with Intellij IDE. i.e i started the Application class that has the main method which delegates to SpringApplication.run. Every

Answer 1

You can use either of the following methods to auto reload Thymeleaf templates:

1. Spring Boot Dev Tools
2. Change Thymeleaf Templates Path
3. Gulp Watch

I recommend Gulp watch as it is easier to setup and works great:

var gulp = require('gulp'), 
watch = require('gulp-watch');

gulp.task('watch', function () {
    return watch('src/main/resources/**/*.*', () => {
            gulp.src('src/main/resources/**')
                //replace with build/resources/main/ for netBeans
                .pipe(gulp.dest('out/production/resources/')); 
    });
});

gulp.task('default', ['watch']);

Now enter the following command in your terminal to start gulp watch:

$ gulp 
//OR
$ gulp watch

I wrote a blog post on auto reloading Thymeleaf templates without restart in IntelliJ IDE.