Jan 5, 2021
There are a few options to add charts to your Thymeleaf application, but one of the easiest is to integrate Google Charts. They are powerful, simple to use and free. This blog post will show how we can integrate them into a Thymeleaf/Spring Boot application.
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Dec 26, 2020
I have been using Architecture Decision Records (ADR) documents on my latest projects. This blog post will show you what they are and how you can use them.
I will also show a few examples that can serve as inspiration for your project.
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Dec 21, 2020
I am thrilled to announce the release of my book Taming Thymeleaf on leanpub. This book aims to be a valuable resource to learn about Thymeleaf with Spring Boot.
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Oct 9, 2020
I just released the first version of my Taming Thymeleaf book on leanpub. Since I am using Asciidoctor to generate the PDF, there is no automatic table of contents generation for the landing page. Luckily, leanpub allows to enter some HTML to manually create the TOC.
A perfect opportunity to use my rusty Groovy skills once more to generate this HTML.
I have my Asciidoc files all in a _chapters directory grouped per chapter:
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Jul 20, 2020
An important part of any decent REST API is good error handling. Good error handling has 2 major goals:
It will help the developers of your API to understand exactly what is wrong when they learn to work with your API.
It will allow to have the mobile app or Single Page Application or whatever that is using your app to give precise error message to the end-user of the application.
We will first take a look at what Spring Boot offers out-of-the-box, and next look at how Error Handling Spring Boot Starter improves this.
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Jun 8, 2020
If you document your REST API with Spring REST Docs, you have probably came across fields that refer to enum values.
This little tip will show you how to automatically include all enum values in the description of the field.
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May 8, 2020
AssertJ 3.16.0 has just been released. It has a feature I contributed to allow testing the (root) cause of an exception.
This blog post will show how to use this to our advantage.
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Apr 17, 2020
Spring Boot has first-class support for testing, both unit and integration testing. To keep your tests running fast, there is the concept of Test Slicing. By only loading the relevant part of the complete application in a test, the tests are focused and run faster since Spring does not need to load everything.
This blog post will show how to use a custom annotation to ensure your unit/integration tests are all consistent with little effort.
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Mar 10, 2020
Laravel is a very interesting PHP framework for building web applications. Their docs have a nice tutorial to build a task list to explain many of their concepts. This blog post basically mirrors that tutorial but shows how to build the same web application using Spring Boot and Thymeleaf.
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Mar 3, 2020
The previous blog post showed how to use Value Objects with a REST API with Spring Boot. In that post, the value object used a long under the hood. This post shows an alternative using UUID objects instead.
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