Mastering Thymeleaf with Spring Boot (Udemy.com)

The course is good, but it needs to be improved in terms of joining the way from starting with thymeleaf to the full course. for example to work with database, either of MySql or with H2 . If you give the sample of code to retrieve the records and then connect it with your course, then it's easy to do the practical simultaneously and gain the knowledge. to understand any new concept, the sample of course code is required, so that it can be learned with practical.

I had a very mixed feeling about this course at the beginning. At first, it was really hard to follow and understand. Maybe it was like that because I'm not a native English speaker. Also, the system where we didn't build the project along the lessons, but just downloaded it from GitHub was weird to me. But somewhere in the middle of the course, I realized that it was actually, not that bad, and the content, in fact, was presented in a really accessible way. So in the end I can recommend this course.

This is a pretty good course that got me on my feet and running in no time. Thymeleaf documentation has a section on Spring, but not Spring Boot, and it's not super easy to quickly set everything up and get started, figure out where all the templates go and what the stucture of 'resources' should look like. This course helped me set everything up, let me start playing with it and showcased the main Thymeleaf features and how it integrates with Spring Boot. From that point, further study is necessary to master the topic, which is fair, but the course itself covers quite a lot. Additional debugging and updating to the latest Thymeleaf and Spring Boot versions is necessary in places, but I did not find it annoying or hard to do. I found myself wishing for the coding assignments to be in a printed form; instead the instructor just says what needs to be done while we're looking at him speaking, without making it possible to also read the instructions. I felt that just including those instructions in the corresponding sections together with links to the code would go a long way. I found it repetitive and unnecessary that the instructor reiterated what they just did in front of you after coding something new, since I just saw what was done and remember it quite well, I felt it took a long time and was unnecessarily detailed, and I was anxious to just skip it in case something else important was added. I also found myself wishing for the music intro at the start and end of each video to go away, as it took a considerable part of videos that are a few minutes long. Thankfully the instructor removed the majority of the intro at the start in later videos, and although he left the end section, it made it a considerably better experience for me overall. All in all, it's a pretty good course that delivers on what it promises, I'd recommend it to anyone who needs to get their feet wet quickly with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf.

The videos for this course were originally shot in 2016 and haven't been updated. I purchased this course in part because it said "Last updated 11/2019" in the synopsis. That appears to be false. If you want to follow along with the instructor's code samples from Git, you'll be stuck on Spring Boot 1.x and Bootstrap 3.x. The Git repo that is referenced in the lectures for obtaining the source code to start each section has not been updated since 2016 either. Some URLs to images in the 'starting point' code examples are no longer valid. For example, the course images on 'index.html' have invalid 'src' links in the img tags and will display nothing. It would help a lot if the instructor or his teaching assistant were to do a code update in the repo branches to fix things that no longer work correctly in 2020. I'm not talking about a rewrite of the course. I would just like to see obviously broken code/pages fixed so students can still follow along with the videos in 2020. The course gets much better around Section 5. The stale content is less of an issue because the course starts to focus on specific features of Spring Boot and Thymeleaf, and one can search for the most up-to-date documentation for each feature if things have changed in 2020. This would have been a 5-star course in 2016/2017. It just got stale and hasn't been maintained.

This course is quite good, if you are a beginner looking for some starting point about Thymeleaf and spring. It is, obviously, outdated. So, something is not going to work (in the examples) and sometimes you'll have to try to fix it on your own.. I have a problem with the last lectures, specially with the th:each that renders the index page. But there are problems with the style.css so I decided to not write the examples anymore due to the problem itself

It is a very complete course. John explains in a concise way enough points to use the Thymeleaf template engine, in addition to real use cases, which allows you to instantly apply the examples in your day to day and do not fall into oblivion. It is true that some points require knowledge of other areas, such as Spring Security or Bootstrap, but this is explained explicitly by the instructor. It is an essential course

Very nice course introduction Thymeleaf. The topics showed in the course are great. The instructor explain the topics in a simple way. The videos show a real world examples. I like see the errors happen in live, this can help to understand when I see it. Maybe some people do not like it. The first 3 modules it is a litle introduction to start a project, Bootstrap CSS, Spring MVC. The fun start in the 4th module. The music ending of each video is a litle anoying for people like me that use headphones.

This course did a great job on jumpstarting me on using Thymeleaf. The material is presented well, isn't too longwinded, and puts the learner in a good position to use the templating engine. I also appreciate that some non-focus areas were covered, inclusion of the bootstrap JS framework and Spring / Thymeleaf security integration are greatly appreciated. I also appreciate that later in the course the intro is reduced to a quiet animated graphic vs. the full multi-media experience that the outro contains - when watching many videos in a row having the outro feed right into the intro of the next lesson with both having full fanfare is very distracting. It would be good if this was likewise fixed in the earlier lessons as well. Thank you for a great class! I'll be looking into your other Spring classes!

It's pretty good, but I find the music and animation jingle at the start and end of each module jarring. I like to put my own music on in the background when I do Udemy courses and watch a bunch of modules back to back. If you watch the modules like this you get 2 jingles exactly the same back to back. Some of the modules are only a few minutes long so it's possible for it to be triggered many times in the space of an hour, which can be pretty off-putting. Otherwise 5/5.

This course is quite extensive and John does explain the thymeleaf templating engine integration with Spring framework really well. However, I find him a little too repetitive on what he will cover and what he covered during each class (it is a waste of time). Each recap takes around 90s in a almost any lecture which are usually 4-6 minutes long. Another time wasters are typos that could be easily avoided and would make this course shorter. Basically, great class that needs some editing to achieve refined, polished look. This gives me an impression that this course was rushed in. John is a really knowledgeable instructor but the course could be shorter (or more extensive in the same time). If you want to see what I mean please check courses offered by Anthony Alicea (no time waster there whatsoever). Should John add some sections to this course I will gladly take a look at them.