Developing/Debugging a Gradle-built Spring Boot app in IntelliJ IDEA

What's the best way to develop a Spring Boot app build by Gradle when using IntelliJ IDEA?

The Spring Boot run/debug approach doesn't work because it doesn't run the app using 'bootRun', it runs the main class directly. As a result things like client JARs don't get picked up and the app doesn't start up successfully.

And when run as a Gradle task, the app starts up successfully but hot swapping of code doesn't work. Changes to code don't affect the running app.

At the moment the best solution I've found is to type 'gradle build --continuous' in one terminal window and 'gradle -DDEBUG=true bootRun' in another window. Then go to IntelliJ and 'Run -> Attach to local process'. Debugging works and changing files works. Unfortunately, it's not hot swapping, it physically restarts the Spring Boot app and console output isn't inside IntelliJ. But it's automatic so that's something.

Am I missing something or is this just the way things work now?