Spring Boot properties to change the directory of frontend resources

Question

I am having a Spring Boot application and I would like to change the directory of my frontend. Instead of having the frontend resources inside the directory resources/static, I would like to move them to another directory out of the resources. What would be the property I need to change so that my application considers the new directory for rendering the frontend?

Answer 1

You can configure additional resources mapping using WebMvcConfigurerAdapter:

@Component
public class ResourcesMvcAdapter extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

   private final Path resourcePath = Paths.get( ... );

   @Override
   public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
     registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/**")
             .addResourceLocations(resourcePath.toUri().toString()); 
   }

}