Thymeleaf is a relatively new template engine; the first version was released in 2011. Thymeleaf is pretty similar to HTML, which doesn't require any servlet containers to preview content in a browser. This is exploited in order to allow designers to work on the look and feel of the application, without deploying it.
Let's review how to convert a web template build, using HTML and Bootstrap, into a Thymeleaf template, in order to see that this template engine is not intrusive. The following code represents a very basic HTML template:
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"/> <title>Default title</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/ ...
