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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.
In JavaScript land this stuff is done via npm instead. There is a tool for bridging Maven and NPM land stuff https://github.com/eirslett/frontend-maven-plugin but then you are really talking about maintaining two complete stacks. At some point then you might as well just check out something like SvelteKit and Prisma.
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.