Features
A carefully chosen set of components and patterns so you spend less time on setup and more time building your product.
No virtual DOM overhead. Alpine.js reacts directly to DOM events, keeping interactions instant even on low-end devices.
Every component is built mobile-first with Tailwind. Looks sharp on phones, tablets, and wide-screen monitors out of the box.
Change colors site-wide by updating a single Tailwind config value. No complex theming systems to learn.
Spring Boot's battle-tested security foundations. Add Spring Security in one dependency when you need authentication.
Clean JSON endpoints with @RestController. The frontend communicates over fetch() — no extra configuration needed.
mvn package produces a self-contained JAR with the frontend bundled. Deploy anywhere Java runs.
From template to running application in four steps.
Start with this template as your base. Everything is already wired up.
Replace placeholder text, colors, and page structure with your own content.
Implement your business logic in Spring Boot controllers, services, and repositories.
Run mvn package and ship the JAR to your server or cloud provider.
Explore the key parts of the stack in more detail.
The entire frontend is plain HTML enhanced with Alpine.js directives. State lives in x-data objects directly on HTML elements — no separate JS files needed for simple interactions.
Tailwind styles are applied via utility classes. Both libraries are loaded from CDN — no build step, no node_modules.
All API endpoints live under /api/** and return JSON. The frontend calls them with fetch(). No CORS configuration is needed since both are served from the same origin.
The layered structure — controller → service → repository → model — keeps concerns separated as the project grows.
Running mvn package bundles everything — backend and all static files — into a single executable JAR. No separate frontend build or server configuration required.
Before going to production, swap the Tailwind Play CDN for the Tailwind CLI to generate an optimized, minimal CSS file.
"Finally a template that doesn't get in the way. Clean, simple, and ready to go. I customized it in an afternoon."
"The Spring Boot + Alpine.js combo is surprisingly powerful. I ship new projects in a fraction of the time now."
"As a Java developer returning to the frontend, this was exactly the right level of complexity. No JavaScript fatigue."
Start from this template and ship your next project faster.