Pro Spring MVC with Webflux: How relevant is Spring MVC still?

[Jan Engehausen]

Hi authors,

I associate Spring MVC with JSPs, the "old world". I've seen much front-end development move off to JavaScript/TypeScript and non-Spring frameworks. Does Web Flux change the game here for Spring MVC, and if yes how?

Thanks!
Jan

[Marten Deinum]

You still need something on the server to fullfil your requests, from that point-of-view your rest based controller receiving the JSON is still part of MVC. The view is the JSON representation in this case. So MVC or the server-side part of things is still relevant. Now the discussion on whether to use Reactive or traditional style programming is a different question that isn't answered easily. As reactive is a totally different programming model changing the architecture of your application, it isn't for everyone.