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• Feb 25, 2026 Migrating away from Thymeleaf Layout Dialect thymeleafspring-boot This blog post explains what the Thymeleaf Layout Dialect is, why you might want to stop using it, and how to migrate to a pure Thymeleaf solution using th:replace.
• Sep 8, 2025 How I document production-ready Spring Boot applications spring-bootarchitecture This blog post explains how I like to document a Spring Boot application I am writing. It is the third and last post in my series on writing production-ready Spring Boot applications. See How I write production-ready Spring Boot applications and How I test production-ready Spring Boot applications for the other posts in the series.
• Jul 30, 2025 How I test production-ready Spring Boot applications spring-bootarchitecture My previous blog post How I write production-ready Spring Boot applications explained how I like to write and structure my production code in Spring Boot applications. This blog post will further explain how I write tests for the code.
• Jun 24, 2025 How I write production-ready Spring Boot applications spring-bootarchitecture This blog post will explain how I currently write Spring Boot applications. I have been writing Java for over 25 years, and most of that involved Spring and its ecosystem. I will talk about how I architect my app, package structure, naming conventions, etc.
• May 14, 2025 Combine Testcontainers and Spring Boot with multiple containers spring-boottestcontainers Testcontainers is a great technology to run Docker containers of dependencies like a database or a messaging middleware like ActiveMq or Kafka. It might not immediately be obvious how to combine JUnit, Testcontainers and Spring Boot when you have multiple containers that your application needs. This blog post aims to provide some guidance on how to combine them.
• Jan 29, 2025 Thymeleaf and TailwindCSS 4.0 updates tailwindcssthymeleafttcli Last week Tailwind CSS v4.0 was released. This, unfortunately, broke the ttcli tool to generate a Spring Boot with Thymeleaf project when you selected Tailwind CSS.
• Dec 31, 2024 Problems I no longer have by using Server-side rendering spring-bootthymeleafhtmx I really like to use Spring Boot, Thymeleaf and htmx for a productive web application stack. However, most of my day-to-day work involves writing REST API backends (Well, JSON Data APIs really) for Angular or React frontends. During that work, I sometimes can’t help but think “We would not have this issue we are discussing now if we had used server-side rendering instead of a JavaScript Single Page Application.”. This blog explains some of those thoughts in more detail.
• Nov 19, 2024 Redirect attributes with Spring MVC and htmx spring-bootthymeleafhtmx A common implementation pattern with Spring MVC is showing a notification message after a redirect has happened. For example, you edit a product in a page and after saving the product you are redirected back to the list of products. At the top, you show a message "Product xyz updated". If the user manually refreshes the page, the message should disappear. To implement this, you can use redirect attributes, sometimes also called flash attributes.
• Nov 5, 2024 Technical presentations with Slidev slidevmarkdownvue I recently started using Slidev for creating presentations. It is a tool to create a Powerpoint/Keynote/Google Slides like presentation, but using Markdown instead. In this blog post, I will explain the basics and share some of my favorite tips and tricks.
• Oct 15, 2024 Using React components in a Spring Boot Thymeleaf project spring-bootthymeleafvitereact This blog post will show you how to create your own React components in a Spring Boot with Thymeleaf project. The setup will use Vite to be able to write the React components in TypeScript and have live reload of the components so you can easily edit them and use them in your Thymeleaf templates. In the end, we will also see how we can use an existing React library in our application.

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