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Saturday, August 8, 2026

A Springboot web application using basic HTML for Frontend UI

Below is an example of creating a springboot application with basic HTML for the front end.

The folder structure for this example is as below.

Here we need the thymeleaf artifactId to render HTML views.

springdemo/
│
├── pom.xml
└── src/
    └── main/
        ├── java/
        │   └── com/
        │       └── example/
        │           └── springdemo/
        │               ├── Application.java
        │               └── controller/
        │                   └── GreetingController.java
        └── resources/
            └── templates/
                └── greeting.html

The source code

Application.java

package com.example.springdemo;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class Application {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}

GreetingController.java

package com.example.springdemo.controller;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;

@Controller
public class GreetingController {

    @GetMapping("/greeting")
    public String greeting(@RequestParam(name="name", required=false, defaultValue="World") String name, Model model) {
        // Pass the name variable to the HTML template
        model.addAttribute("name", name);
        
        // Returns the name of the HTML file (greeting.html)
        return "greeting";
    }
}

greeting.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns:th="http://thymeleaf.org">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Spring Boot Greeting</title>
</head>
<body>
    <!-- Thymeleaf replaces the placeholder text with the actual dynamic value -->
    <h1 th:text="'Hello, ' + ${name} + '!'">Hello, User!</h1>
</body>
</html>

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://apache.org"
         xmlns:xsi="http://w3.org"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://apache.org https://apache.org">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>3.2.5</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>

    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>springdemo</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name/>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

    <properties>
        <java.version>17</java.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <!-- Spring MVC for Web development -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <!-- Thymeleaf for rendering HTML views -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf</artifactId>
        </dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
			<scope>test</scope>
		</dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

Run as below http://localhost:8080/greeting?name=John

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A Springboot web application using basic HTML for Frontend UI

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