Thymeleaf, Spring MVC and htmx are a combination Java developers can put to work quickly: templates for the view, controllers for the request and partial updates where they help. We now support that programming model with a different execution path: statically compiled rendering code inside a native Java backend.

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The template compiler processes a supported subset of Thymeleaf syntax and emits Java renderers with direct model access. Spring MVC-style controllers choose the page or fragment. ParparVM compiles the renderers with the rest of the backend into native code. The response is still ordinary HTML that any browser can display.

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