Hi there 👋

I am Wim Deblauwe, a software engineer from 🇧🇪 Belgium.

About Me

• Freelance Java software engineer at widit.be
• ❤️ Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, AlpineJS, htmx
• 📝 I blog at wimdeblauwe.com
• 📺 I have a YouTube channel
• 📖 I have written 2 books on Spring Boot:
  • Taming Thymeleaf
  • Practical Guide to Building an API Back End with Spring Boot

Open Source Projects

Ttcli

A command line tool built on Spring Boot and Spring Shell using GraalVM to generate a Spring Boot with Thymeleaf project. It has various options to customize the generated project with live reload, webjars support, ...

Spring Boot and Thymeleaf library for htmx

This library provides helper classes and a Thymeleaf dialect to make it easy to work with htmx in a Spring Boot application.

Error Handling Spring Boot Starter

The goal of the project is to make it easy to have proper, consistent error responses for REST APIs build with Spring Boot. See Error handling library for Spring Boot for a detailed explanation of the project and what it improves on top of the default Spring Boot support for error responses.

Testcontainers-cypress

This project allows to run Cypress tests from a JUnit test using TestContainers. It is very convenient when using server-side HTML templating like Thymeleaf.