I recently updated the OS on my laptop (Linux Mint 17.1 => 17.3) and now when I run my project with
mvn spring-boot:run
static resources are copied to the target folder, essentially caching them. Thus I have to completely bounce the server to see changes made to the static resources reflected in the browser.
This was not the case before I updated my laptop. I have also found that it is exclusive to this project, other spring-boot projects are not affected.
I also cannot get static resources to update when running in eclipse, both in normal and debug mode.
Some additional information:
Java version: 1.7
Spring-boot version: 1.3.2
spring-boot maven plugin version: 1.3.2
Maven version: 3.3.9
Any ideas?
Explicitly setting the addResources config item in the spring-boot maven plugin seems to fix this. The plugin declaration in your pom file will look like this:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<addResources>true</addResources>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>repackage</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Interestingly, adding the spring-boot-devtools dependency doesn't not fix this, despite the documentation specifically mentioning it would do the same thing as the addResources config item.