Refreshing static content with Spring MVC and Boot

Question

I\'m evaluating Spring MVC & Boot and AngularJs for building web applications. I\'ve run into the problem that when I make modifications to my static content (html, js,

Answer 1

The docs say "all modern IDEs allow reloading of static resources and usually also hot-swapping of Java class changes" (https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current-SNAPSHOT/reference/html/howto.html#howto-hotswapping). It's true. Eclipse does it more or less by default, and I'm not an IntelliJ user, but from what I understand you can configure it to build automatically as well.