Why is Java templating/server rendering losing ground?

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There are a few others like Phoenix emerging nowadays: https://github.com/readme/featured/server-side-languages-for-front-end

• htmx

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For Java and Springboot, Thymeleaf seems to be the most popular choice - but given how unpopular all available choices are (JSP, Freemarker, Pebble) that is not saying much. Their integration into popular frameworks like Spring Boot has not improved either. I was considering using htmx for a new project - which is an extension for regular html and requires the server to return html - but having to use one of the Java templating frameworks is rather painful.

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• static-mustache

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  Template engine for java with statically checked and compiled templates. Compilation is performed alone with java sources.

FWIW we use Handlebars.java or JMustache depending on context. I really wanted to use something like https://github.com/sviperll/static-mustache but its not really ready. I was working on my own Mustache compiler to straight Java but I lost steam on that.

• spring-jsview

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I implemented a React view system for Spring Boot. The logical view name on the Server side is resolved into a webpack entry point and the server just fills a rudimentary HTML template that basically just references the corresponding webpack assets and static styles/graphics if applicable.

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