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Java

Posted by Victor Rodriguez
Victor Rodriguez
15,015 Points

How can Spark render HTML without a template engine?

I like Spark. It is simple and fast to develop for. Only one problem. I don't need server-side templating. So If I want to serve plain html only, is there a way to serve a .html instead of .hbs?

Right now I am using 

response.redirect("/index.html");

to server my index file and returning an empty string. This feels dirty. Is there a better way?

Even the Spark Docs don't seem to have information on this. I'd rather not push plain HTML through a templating engine for no reason.