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Svelte 5 Islands in Spring Boot with Kotlin: The Preact Alternative In my previous post I showed how to use Preact Islands to handle the 5% of interactions where Alpine.js falls apart. Preact works gr
Claude Code on the Web runs inside a sandboxed environment that routes all traffic through an HTTP proxy. Tools like curl pick up the https_proxy environment variable automatically - but Java doesn't. The Gradle wrapper uses java.net.HttpURLConnecti...
I build my webserver-rendered web applications with Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, and HTMX. I sprinkle some Alpine.js on top for dropdowns and toggles. And for 95% of interactions, this stack is perfect. But then you hit that one feature – a kanban board w...
I recently migrated my SaaS application PhotoQuest from Supabase Auth to Spring Security 7. The result? ~700 lines of custom auth code eliminated. But the real story isn't the code. It's how two conversations with Claude Code shaped the entire approa...
I’ve recently started using Dokploy for getting my projects to production quickly. It is a great alternative to Coolify. Some of the features that are really nice to have: Continuous deployment using GitHub System Monitoring Paketo Buildpack suppo...
My favourite template engine JTE (the Java Template Engine) is now available on start.spring.io. It compiles the templates into native java classes offering compile time safety. With hot reloading and the IntelliJ plugin it makes me really productive...
Supercharging Hypermedia Driven Application with Spring ViewComponent
You can share test code between modules/projects easily using the Gradle java-test-fixtures plugin. plugins { id("java-test-fixtures") } This will allow you to create a new source set in src/testFixtures where you can define the test code you wa...
Nowadays Spring is typically only used for JSON API backend development.We build the web frontend with a JavaScript framework, but why? Probably everyone has experienced that JavaScript headache when it behaves like a well-tested modern language: ht...
