spring boot return string instead of .html file

Question

I tried to run spring boot application, that will return me the HTML static file on the static folder, the problem was: every time I load the page: 127.0.0.1 I get the String \"

Answer 1

When you use annotation @ResponseBody, you actually tell spring to not try to find a view with the returned name. If you want the html, just remove the annotation from the controller method.