Launch GWT in dev mode while running server on Spring-boot - gwt

Question

I have created web application using Spring boot and gwt 2.6.0.
Changed location of generated files:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${gwt.plugin.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<configuration>
<module>my.module</module>
<webappDirectory>src/main/resources/gwt-public/</webappDirectory>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
And if running my application standalone everything works correctly, because all the needed files are accessible.
But the question is - how to run GWT in development mode (from Intellij IDEA). I am trying to run it in -noserver mode, it launches but in browser there is nothing.
As I understand I need to specify war directory which is used by dev plugin, so it means I need to explicitly set packaging to war? I have no clear thoughts about it.

Answer 1

you can compile a war, run the server and then run gwt debug, but after the browser opens change the url to the localhost:xxxx whatever spring is running, but leave the servercode=127.0.0.1 as is.
or you can use gwt:debug on maven plugin instaed of compile.
looky here: http://mojo.codehaus.org/gwt-maven-plugin/debug-mojo.html

Answer 2

I got this working by adding this to your gwt-maven-plugin configuration:
<superDevMode>false</superDevMode>
If you are going to change the URL as Zerkotin suggests, then I supplied this additional property:
<noServer>true</noServer>
to stop the mvn-gwt-plugin from starting up the embedded Jetty instance. But this did not allow me to recompile on the fly.
To get it working in super dev mode, I set this up in my gwt-maven-plugin config:
true
true
Then I started up Spring Boot as normal (using java -jar myweb.jar). Then I started up maven gwt plugin (mvn gwt-debug), attached IntelliJ to the debugger (using remote), went to code server URL (NOT my app URL), set up those book marklets, then went to my app URL, and when I want to recompile, I just hit those bookmarklets.