Using Thymeleaf to render a Publisher<T> stream

Other than FreeMarker, Spring 5 has a strong built-in support for Thymeleaf template compilation, with the objective of rendering Reactive Stream data directly.

Getting started

Open the Maven project ch08 and add the following view configuration for Thymeleaf integration.

How to do it...

To use Thymeleaf as the templating procedure for rendering reactive contents, follow these steps:

1. Before this recipe starts, be sure to have the Spring Reactive dependency included in pom.xml since we are building now a reactive web application.
2. If the rendition requires the use of non-blocking Mono<T> and Flux<T> operations, then Thymeleaf is the appropriate templating library to use, because FreeMarker cannot directly recognize non-blocking operations. To integrate Thymeleaf for Spring 5, add the following Maven dependencies:

<dependency> 
    <groupId>org.thymeleaf</groupId> 
    <artifactId>thymeleaf-spring5</artifactId...