Using start.spring.io to augment an existing project

What if we already started a project and have been working hard on it for the past six months? Creating a brand-new project makes no sense, right?

So, what can we do?

It’s possible to pick up an already existing project and make alterations using start.spring.io.

We started this chapter with nothing but Spring Web. While we could get pretty far with this, it’s not quite enough. While we can write HTML by hand, in this day and age it’s easier to use template engines to do that for us. Since we are looking for something lightweight, let’s pick Mustache (mustache.github.io).

If this is appearing a tad contrived, that is because it is. If you’re starting a new web project, it makes sense to pick a templating engine at the same time that you choose Spring Web. Nevertheless, this tactic of adding additional modules to existing projects still works.

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