Wim Deblauwe

Oct 4, 2021

TodoMVC with Thymeleaf and HTMX

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.

Sep 27, 2021

TodoMVC with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf (Part 3)

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.

Sep 23, 2021

TodoMVC with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf (Part 2)

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.

Sep 20, 2021

TodoMVC with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf (Part 1)

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.

Sep 15, 2021

Thymeleaf iteration and fragments

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.

Jul 25, 2021

Using Java 16 records with Thymeleaf

Since Java 16, we can use records. This blog post shows how Thymeleaf supports this.

May 23, 2021

Form handling with Thymeleaf

This post explains in detail how you should implement a HTML form with Thymeleaf and Spring Boot.

May 1, 2021

Error Handling Spring Boot Starter release 1.6.0

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.

Apr 26, 2021