Spring Boot with Thymeleaf and Maven

In this section, we will see how we can use Spring boot to create a Spring with Thymeleaf application.

The pre-requisite for this operation is Maven, which should be installed. To check if Maven is installed, type the following command in to the Command Prompt:

mvn –version

1. Use the archetype to generate a Spring boot with a thymeleaf project:

   mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DgroupId=com.packt.demo -DartifactId=spring-boot-thymeleaf -interactiveMode=false
   

   The preceding command will create a spring-boot-thymeleaf directory. This can be imported into Eclipse IDE.

2. You will open the pom.xml file and add a parent project:

   <parent>
     <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
     <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
     <version>1.1.8.RELEASE</version>
   </parent>

3. Start adding a dependency to the pom.xml file:

   <dependencies>
     <dependency>
     <groupId...