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Walks through creating a JPA entity and repository, serving HTML with a controller, integrating CSS/JS via WebJars instead of npm, using Thymeleaf attributes (th:if, th:field, th:action, th:remove) to conditionally render UI, handling form submissions with a form data object and POST mapping, and displaying todo items using Thymeleaf fragments and DTOs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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