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SpringBoot and Thymeleaf basic setup:
1. Maven project with dependencies
2. Developer Tools:
This spring-boot-devtools helps to disable the caches
and enable hot swapping so that developers will always see the last changes. Good for development. Read this – Spring Boot – Developer tools Try to modify the Thymeleaf templates or properties files, refresh the browser
to see the changes take effect immediately.
<dependency>
	<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
	<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
	<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
3. Controller
4. Main app: @SpringBootApplication
5. Thymeleaf + Static files
https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#boot-features-spring-mvc-static-content
5.1 For Thymeleaf template files, put in src/main/resources/templates/
src/main/resources/templates/welcome.html
5.2 Spring Boot common application properties
src/main/resources/application.properties

welcome.message: xxxxxxx

spring.thymeleaf.cache=false
5.3 For Static files like CSS or JS, put in src/main/resources/static/
src/main/resources/static/css/main.css
6. Unit Test

MockMvc to test the Spring MVC controller.

7. Demo
URL = http://localhost:8080
URL = http://localhost:8080/hello?name=abc

8. Create an executable JAR

For deployment, just normal Maven package to create an executable JAR file.

$ mvn clean package

$ java -jar target\web-thymeleaf-1.0.jar