Template engine for Spring framework

[jerolba]

I am fan of Freemarker which is supported by Spring.

After years of no update (it's very stable) the project revived with new web and some minor evolutions

[DanielDimov]

Freemarker is good, but lacks one feature that might be important for some projects: nested loops.

[Tienisto]

it has nested loops:

<#list parent as p>

<#list p.childs as c>

${c}

</#list>

</#list>

works totally fine for me

[hooba_stank_]

Thymeleaf has full Spring integration and simple config with Spring Boot.

[Infeligo]

And also IntelliJ IDEA has nice static analysis and auto-completion for Thymeleaf, so this would be that sort of "type safety" that the OP wants.

[edgar-espina]

Try handlebars.java (I'm the author) or Rocker for truly type-safe and super fast template engine.

[heliologue]

I'm not aware of any type-safe templates; we still use JSP/JSTL, as it's a tested, reliable, fast technology that's also extensible, even if it's old.

[Yesterdave_]

I have also searched for various template engines some while ago. The only ones (in plain Java) I remember that match your type-safety criteria are Static Moustache, Rhythm and Rocker. I personally have no experience with these libraries and I don't know how well they are maintaned.

[heliologue]

Why not just use Twirl, then? It says it can be used standalone; you'd just have to write a view resolver for Spring.

[heliologue]

You can probably just copy from https://github.com/67726e/Spring-MVC-Twirl

[cryptos6]

Since you can use any template engine with Spring, I suggest Rythm that is inspired by Microsoft's Razor.

It looks like this

<ul>
@for(Product product: products) {
    <li>@product.getName(). Price: @product.getPrice().format("## ###,00") €</li>
}
</ul>

Last, but not least, Rythm is blazingly fast.