How to change the way Spring Boot serves static files?

Question

After using JHipster on a couple of new projects recently (Highly recommended ! Amazing work !), I am trying to back-port some of the concepts into an older webapp, essentia

Answer 1

you can add following code in application.propertise:

spring.resources.static-locations=classpath:/webapp/

and following code in application.yaml:

resources:
    static-locations: classpath:/webapp/

Answer 2

You can try following configuration. The idea should be pretty straight forward. It does register artifacts in assets directory.

public class AppMvcConfiguration extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

  @Override
  public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
      // Including all static resources.

      registry.addResourceHandler("/assets/**", 
                  "/css/**", 
                  "/img/**",
                  "/js/**"
             ).addResourceLocations("/assets/",
                  "/css/", 
                  "/img/",
                  "/js/"
      ).resourceChain(true)
       .addResolver(new PathResourceResolver());

       super.addResourceHandlers(registry);
  }
}