livelessons-web-templates

Lesson 9: Developing Web Applications (Resources)

Introduction

Shows how you can use templates with your Web Application.

Building and running the sample

Use the following commands to build run the application:

$ mvn clean package
$ java -jar target/livelessons-web-templates-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Understanding the code

Even if you have a rich JavaScript web application you may still want to use a templating system. Templating gives you additional flexibilty to decide how screens are composed and what on-the-fly modifications might need to happen as they are served.

This example uses Thymleaf to compose a welcome page using a layout. The index.html page contains the content and the layout.html page contains standard items that will be on every page (header, footer etc).

Thymleaf is auto-configured because we include the spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf dependency. Templates are picked up from the src/main/resources/templates folder.