Replit performance

Slow Application Startup on Replit

Your app takes 30+ seconds to start, making development slow and deployments take forever. Startup time is unacceptable.

Spring Boot's autoconfiguration and component scanning cause slow initialization.

Common Causes

  1. Large number of beans and autoconfiguration
  2. Component scanning entire classpath
  3. Eager database connection initialization
  4. Loading all data on startup
  5. Hibernate scanning all entities

How to Fix It

Use spring-boot-starter-webflux for async. Defer non-critical beans with @Lazy. Exclude unnecessary autoconfiguration: @SpringBootApplication(exclude={...}). Move startup data loading to lazy-loaded service. Use spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=validate instead of create/update. Profile startup with --debug flag.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I measure startup time?

Use ./gradlew bootRun and check 'Started YourApp in X seconds'

Which beans can I mark @Lazy?

Non-critical services like schedulers, batch processors, external integrations

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