Grails 4 hot swap / recompile

Question

Im using: Intellij grailsVersion: 4.0.3 gorm.version: 7.0.4.RELEASE

I just get: Testcontroller.groovy changed, recompiling...

But my code isn't hot deployed. With Grails 3 everything worked fine.

What can I do so that the Controllers in Grails 4 and Spring Boot 2 get hot deployed?

Answer 1

You may use spring-loaded (project has been idle for years but still works) or JRebel for "hot" reloads.

To enable:

build.gradle

dependencies {
    // Remove dev-tools from classpath
    // developmentOnly("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools") 
    agent "org.springframework:springloaded:1.2.8.RELEASE"
    // (Optional) Native OSX file watcher
    runtimeOnly "io.methvin:directory-watcher:0.9.6"
    //...
}

See: https://github.com/grails/grails-core/pull/11441