Spring 5.0 Projects

Defining the view controller

We will have one view controller, ViewController.java defined in the com.nilangpatel.worldgdp.controller.view. The view controller will be responsible for populating the data required for the view templates and also mapping URLs to corresponding view templates. 

We will be using Thymeleaf (www.thymeleaf.org) as the server-side template engine and Mustache.js (https://github.com/janl/mustache.js) as our client-side template engine. The advantage of using a client-side template engine is that any data loaded asynchronously in the form of JSON can easily be added to the DOM by generating HTML using the client-side templates. We will explore more about Thymeleaf and Mustache.js in Chapter 3, Blogpress – A simple blog ...