Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5

Reactive template engines

Along with regular API features, one of the most popular parts of modern web applications is the UI. Of course, web application UIs today are based on sophisticated JavaScript rendering and, in most cases, developers prefer client-side rendering rather than server-side. Despite this, a lot of enterprise applications are still using server-side rendering technologies that are relevant to their use cases. Web MVC has support for various technologies, such as JSP, JSTL, FreeMarker, Groovy Markup, Thymeleaf, Apache Tiles, and many others. Unfortunately, with Spring 5.x and the WebFlux module, support for many of these, including Apache Velocity, has been dropped.

Nevertheless, Spring WebFlux has the same technique for ...