Spring Boot Dev Tools Turning them off for production?

Question

I was reading around a lot about spring dev tools and I have tried them on and they seem pretty cool. However, I don\'t understand how they get enabled / disabled. For instan

Answer 1

It is excluded automatically for Spring Boot applications that use the JAR packaging. However, for WAR packaged Spring Boot projects, it is not. For Maven Spring Boot projects you must mark the dependency as provided and also set excludeDevTools=true in your pom.xml.

Change devtools to "provided"

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-devtools
    provided

Exclude devtools from maven spring build plugin

    org.springframework.boot
    spring-boot-maven-plugin
    
        true
    

More information here: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/7556