Developers are always looking for ways to speed things up. Long ago, one of the biggest speedups was incremental compilers and having them run every time we saved a file. Now that it's permeated modern tools, no one thinks twice about such a feature.
Something critically needed when it comes to building Spring Boot apps is the ability to detect a change in our code and relaunch the embedded container.
Thankfully, we just need one addition to our code we built in the previous chapter:
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools")
If you happen to be using Maven, you would want to include the optional flag.
So, this tiny module performs the following activities:
- Disables cache settings for autoconfigured components
- When it detects a change in code, it restarts the application, holding onto third...