Rapid server-side full stack web development with ViewComponents and htmx

Thomas Schuehly - Mimacom

When thinking about rapid full stack web development, your first thought doesn’t go to Spring but instead you think about full stack JavaScript frameworks like Next.js. With the power of Spring ViewComponent, htmx, and supabase, full stack development with Spring can be as productive as JavaScript.

Full stack web development with Spring normally assumes that you are developing a SPA client-side JavaScript application and a Spring Boot based JSON API. This paradigm will presumably shift with the advancements, made by the growing full stack Spring web developer community. This talk will show you how you can rapidly develop full stack web applications with Spring ViewComponents, htmx, and supabase. Whilst not using JavaScript, htmx gives you client-side interactivity with just a few simple HTML attributes. Server-rendered Spring ViewComponents enable you to create type safe templates, reuse them more efficiently and solve structural problems when developing. The supabase-security-spring-boot-starter simplifies the setup of your Spring Security and supercharges your authentication and authorization, while also setting up a hosted Postgres database for you.