possible to create frontend using Spring?

[Bronislav Bronek]

Hi,
could you tell me, is this possible to create frontend using SPRING ?

[Tim Nachreiner]

Thymeleaf is Spring's templating tool.

[Bear Bibeault]

That greatly depends on what you mean by "front-end".

[Bronislav Bronek]

Could you give me definition of front end in typical web applicaton ?

[Bear Bibeault]

There isn't typical definition. Some people use it to mean "the UI" no matter how that UI is generated. Others use it to mean client-side applications, usually in JavaScript or TypeScript.

In the latter case, any UI generated on the server (i.e. JSP, JSF, SpringMVC, FreeMarker, etc) are not "front-end".

Which do you mean?

[Bronislav Bronek]

Could you explain this = 'no matter how that UI is generated'

[Bear Bibeault]

I did kind of explain that. The "where" I'm talking about is on the server versus on the client.

Templating systems like JSP, JSF and so on generate the HTML on the server and send it to the client. Modern SPAs (single page applications) and other apps using modern JavaScript frameworks generate the UI on the client.

[Bear Bibeault]

P.S. Spring is a server-side system; so if you mean a client-side "front end", then the answer to your question is no. If you want to generate the UI on the server, then yes.