Skills Expanded

Build a Basic Blog with Spring Boot

What you'll learn

In this project you’ll follow along with our instructions and create a basic blog with Spring Boot 2. You’ll create a controller that routes requests to several Thymeleaf templates to display blog data.

Table of contents

Setup
1h
  • Set up your local environment for projects. We'll walk you through everything you need to know, including how to install and configure your environment to be able to complete all of the tasks.
Create a controller that displays a Thymeleaf Template
10m
  • In this module, you'll create a controller that routes a request to the home template and passes data to it to display.
Display Static Data from the Post Repository
10m
  • In this module, we'll add blog data to the PostRepository class and then display that data in our template.
Add style to the home page
10m
  • In this module, we'll incorporate css and template substitution into our home template.
Display a Post Details Page
10m
  • In this module, we'll display a post details page by adding a request mapping to the controller.

About the author

Sarah just finished her PhD in Computer Science and in that process found two loves: inventing things and teaching. Working at Pluralsight allows her to do what she loves and work with some amazing people. When she's not teaching she's outside, enjoying the Florida sunshine with her family.

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