spring boot hotswap with Intellij IDE

A solution that uses devTools works :

1 – Adding devtools to your project

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
</dependency>

2- Enabling automatic build

Open the Settings –> Build-Execution-Deployment –> Compiler and enable :

Build Project Automatically.

3- Update the value of compiler.automake.allow.when.app.running

press ctrl+shift+A and search for the registry. In the registry, enable :

compiler.automake.allow.when.app.running

Hope it helps !


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