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Using Spring Boot Devtools for database visualization
In order to ease the testing of database development via Spring Boot Devtools, a dependency can be used that will provide a GUI to visualize the tables created with the data when an embedded database such as H2 is used. This can be seen from the following code:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
With this Spring Boot Devtools enabled after the Spring Boot application's startup, accessing the http://<host>:<port>/h2-console (the port will be the same port as the Spring Boot application) URL will display the following H2 database console for ease of development:
![](https://epubservercos.yuewen.com/8AED3C/19470390708870606/epubprivate/OEBPS/Images/dcc396a8-950c-4112-b70f-1f27fb066bfe.png?sign=1739297755-QKhO77LgdnfrHB3m1qqT6wM4oFXuP0gc-0-3656dd2b2d17dd2e881484e66c840569)
After clicking the Connect button with the correct parameters, the following screen with database tables and users will be displayed:
![](https://epubservercos.yuewen.com/8AED3C/19470390708870606/epubprivate/OEBPS/Images/255f4541-2224-43c1-97c8-f6e619f6d1f1.png?sign=1739297755-Wh7M4eiyMbw2Ag3rkUlzB1MJGIHmINEC-0-82129f7537e86e784a145e1f9a5f6a48)
With this tool, entries in the rb_user table and the rb_comment table can be visualized for ease of development.