View / template

Understand the idea

A server-side template combines markup with model values and produces the HTML sent to the browser. Returning a view name delegates rendering to the view resolver and engine. React instead builds the interactive interface in the browser from API data.

A concrete example

return "form";
→ src/main/resources/templates/form.html

In the application

Manual 01 uses list.html and form.html. Manual 03 uses React components rather than server templates.

Opening a Thymeleaf file directly in a browser does not run its server-side expressions.

See it in a working stage

• Stage 6: introduce Model and Thymeleaf with a product catalog

Related concepts

• MVC · Model–View–Controller
• MVC Model
• Thymeleaf
• React