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Handlebars.java
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Full Time
The blog is just hugo so it's 100% static files over nginx.
The search engine is serverside-rendered mustache templates via handlebars[1], via served via spark[2]. It's basically all vanilla Java. I do raw SQL queries instead of ORM, which makes it quite a bit snappier than most Java applications. The sheer size of the database also mandates that basically every query is a primary key lookup. The code is written around that constraint.
Although the search engine is a bit on the slow side since it's routed through cloudflare and I think I'm relatively far away from the closest datacenter so it adds like 100ms to the load times.
[1] https://github.com/jknack/handlebars.java
[2] https://sparkjava.com/
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Spring Boot & HTMX ?
tl;dr - if you are working with Spring Boot, the main way to build a web UI is either Thymeleaf or maybe https://github.com/jknack/handlebars.java with HTMX and _hyperscript and/or Alpine.js. If you aren't really into CSS if you couple those with something like https://picocss.com/ you can build pretty good looking stuff pretty fast. Honestly if you go through setting that stuff up you will be in a good spot to keep going with other stuff later.
What are some alternatives?
Thymeleaf - Thymeleaf is a modern server-side Java template engine for both web and standalone environments.
FreeMarker - Apache Freemarker
Mustache.java - Implementation of mustache.js for Java
Pebble - Java Template Engine
Jtwig Project - Java modern template engine
JsonBatch - An Engine to run batch request with JSON based REST APIs