How can I serve static html from spring boot?

Question

I ran the spring-boot-sample-web-static project from here, made this alteration to the pom

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Answer 1

You can quickly serve static content in JAVA Spring-boot App via thymeleaf (ref: source)

I assume you have already added Spring Boot plugin apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot' and the necessary buildscript

Then go ahead and ADD thymeleaf to your build.gradle ==>

dependencies {
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web')
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf")
    testCompile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test')
}

Lets assume you have added home.html at src/main/resources To serve this file, you will need to create a controller.

package com.ajinkya.th.controller;

  import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
  import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;

  @Controller
  public class HomePageController {

      @RequestMapping("/")
      public String homePage() {
        return "home";
      }

  }

Thats it ! Now restart your gradle server. ./gradlew bootRun