diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 03b0363..34595ef 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -242,6 +242,9 @@
 					<supportedPackagings>
 						<supportedPackaging>jar</supportedPackaging>
 					</supportedPackagings>
+					<systemProperties>
+						<vaadin.frontend.hotdeploy>true</vaadin.frontend.hotdeploy>
+					</systemProperties>
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 		</plugins>