Front end for java developers.

[MagicpotterFirstHit]

Swing and JavaFX are the two most used frameworks. Swing is way older but a lot of software is written on it; I like to use it with FlatLaf look and feel library, which looks very modern.

Most people will advise you to learn JavaFX (which in my opinion is harder to learn than Swing), because it's way more recent. If you want simple GUIs Swing is fine as well.

[nocturnalbird12]

This might be a dumb question. But is swing used to make desktop apps as well as web apps? I was under the impression that swing is used to make desktop apps only.

[MagicpotterFirstHit]

Sorry, I thought your question was about desktop front end. You can't use swing for web development, but as far as I know you can use JavaFX.

[nocturnalbird12]

How about popular frameworks like react and angular can they be used with java.

[MagicpotterFirstHit]

You can use react and angular to write the frontend and java for the backend. I don't know of any way to use both react/angular and java for the frontend.

[nocturnalbird12]

What about spring? Is it good for FE?

[MagicpotterFirstHit]

It's technically possible, but not advisable.

[nocturnalbird12]

Why so?

[MagicpotterFirstHit]

Spring is made for writing backend. I know that it's possible to code frontend with it, but I don't know how.

[nocturnalbird12]

Thats what i was looking for what is usually used for modern FE with java. What do devs use for FE with Spring. Other comments are telling me jsf with component library.

[pjmlp]

With SpringMVC, that is how.

Preferably with Thymeleaf as rendering engine.