Spring Boot Devtools

Spring Boot Devtools is a powerful tool that significantly improves the development experience by providing features like automatic restarts, live reload, and configurations that are optimized for development. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to set up and use Spring Boot Devtools to speed up your development workflow. Why Use Spring Boot Devtools? Spring Boot Devtools enhances the development process in several ways: Automatic Restarts: Automatically restarts your application whenever files on the classpath change, saving you the hassle of manually restarting the server. Live Reload: Integrates with LiveReload to refresh the browser when resources change, providing instant feedback on your changes. Development-Time Configurations: Applies specific settings that make development easier, like disabling template caching and enabling debug logging. Setting Up Spring Boot Devtools Adding Devtools Dependency First, you need to add the Spring Boot Devtools dependency to your project. This can be done by adding the following dependency to your pom.xml if you are using Maven: ...