Bringing new life to the view layer of Spring web apps with Thymeleaf
summary
Thymeleaf 3.0 is a major rewrite (about 85% new core code, ~60,000 LOC) with 75,000 downloads for the core and an estimated 95% usage inside Spring MVC. It replaces a DOM-based engine with an event-based parser to cut memory and latency, adds true HTML5 parsing (no XMLization), first-class inlining, JS/CSS/text template modes, fragment parameters, decoupled templates, reactive-friendly buffered and data-driven output modes, and shows large rendering and memory improvements (and yes the build had ~4,000 tests and a joking 220 L coffee footprint).
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:00What is Thymeleaf?
- 2:59What does it look like?
- 5:00Designers(?) create HTML...
- 6:46So what about style changes?
- 8:35The trick
- 9:56HTML5 allows custom attributes
- 10:36Now we can prototype!
- 11:25Yet prototyping is very optional
- 13:22Page composition/layout
- 14:45Markup selectors
- 15:34Fragments with parameters
- 16:47Extending Thymeleaf
- 18:17Testing the view layer
- 19:49Thymeleaf 3.0 in space and time
- 21:26A new architecture
- 23:23Improved performance
- 24:05Full HTML5 support
- 25:59Improved inlining
- 28:20JavaScript natural templates
- 29:30Fragment expressions
- 31:06Decoupled templates
- 32:52Reactive friendliness
- 36:28Reactive-friendly operation modes
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