· NGSRV Team
How to share a Spring Boot dev server online
You finished a feature branch and someone off your machine needs to click through it. Deploying a staging build works, but it is slow. Running ./mvnw spring-boot:run and tunneling it is faster.
Check server.port in application.properties if your app is not on 8080.
Steps
# 1. Start Spring Boot
./mvnw spring-boot:run
# 2. In another terminal, tunnel the port
ngsrv http 8080
Check application.properties if the dev server complains about the hostname.
Reserve a URL that does not change
ngsrv http 8080 --subdomain spring-boot-preview
Hand that link to QA or a client. Same URL after you restart the tunnel.
Declarative config for teams
Check a ngsrv.yml into the repo so everyone runs the same tunnel names:
tunnels:
- name: spring-boot
port: 8080
subdomain: spring-boot-preview
Then ngsrv run.