Spring 5.0 Cookbook

How to do it...

Spring 5's reactive module supports FreeMarker components to provide templates to reactive contents. Let us implement FreeMarker templating using the Spring Reactive module:

1. Add the newest Maven dependencies of FreeMarker in pom.xml:

<dependency> 
    <groupId>org.freemarker</groupId> 
    <artifactId>freemarker</artifactId> 
    <version>2.3.26-incubating</version> 
</dependency> 

2. To add the reactive components to the application, include the following Maven dependency that implements the Reactor Core implementation of the Reactive Streams specification:

<dependency> 
   <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> 
   <artifactId>spring-web-reactive</artifactId> 
   <version>${spring.version}</version> 
</dependency>

3. To avoid conflicts with other non-reactive ...