Nov 23, 2021
It is possible to push information from a Spring Boot backend to the UI using either Websockets or Server-Sent Events.
This blog post will show how to use Thymeleaf with HTMX to push information from the server to the UI with Server-Sent Events.
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Nov 18, 2021
The hibernate-types library has extra types that are not found in Hibernate by default.
One of the most interesting aspects of the library is the support for JSON types. Unfortunately, by default, the library will not pick up any Jackson configuration or custom serializers defined in your Spring Boot project.
This blog post will show how to configure things so the JSON related configuration of Spring Boot is used.
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Oct 4, 2021
In TodoMVC with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf, we implemented a TodoMVC clone using Spring MVC and Thymeleaf. In such a setup, each action triggers a page refresh. While this works just fine, you might want to give a more Single Page Application (SPA) spice to the experience and avoid page refreshes. This blog post will show how to use HTMX to accomplish this.
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Sep 27, 2021
In Part 2, we implemented completion and deletion of todo items. In this last part of the 3-part series, we’ll finish the implementation of our TodoMVC clone.
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Sep 23, 2021
In Part 1, we implemented TodoMVC using Spring Boot and Thymeleaf. The application already allows to add todo items and show them. We will continue in this part with completing items and deleting them.
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Sep 20, 2021
The TodoMVC project has implementations of a simple todo list application for many different frontend frameworks. The goal is that a Single Page Application is implemented in a varity of technologies to be able to compare them. I wanted to stretch the concept a bit and create a Spring Boot backend with Thymeleaf server-side rendered HTML page just to see how that could work and how it would affect the user experience.
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Sep 15, 2021
Iteration in Thymeleaf templates is done using th:each. But combining it with fragments can yield some surprising results. This blog post shows an overview of what can happen and common pitfalls to watch out for.
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Jul 25, 2021
Since Java 16, we can use records. This blog post shows how Thymeleaf supports this.
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May 23, 2021
This post explains in detail how you should implement a HTML form with Thymeleaf and Spring Boot.
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May 1, 2021
There is a new version 1.6.0 of the Error Handling Spring Boot Starter. A lot of new things have been added since I lasted blogged about version 1.2.0 of this library, so it is time for a round-up to show the new goodies.
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