Spring Boot with AngularJS - angularjs

Question

I have a Spring Boot project using Jersey as my REST service and using AngularJS for my front end development. While I run it without using any controller and go to index.html (which is in resource/static/index.html) it works fine. When I add a controller it renders gives the string "index.html" as an output. Spring Boot Configuration:
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
#SpringBootApplication
#ComponentScan(basePackages = {"com.cst.interfaces","com.cst.configuration","com.cst.application","com.cst.application.implmentation"})
#EnableAutoConfiguration
public class ApplicationConfiguration {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{
SpringApplication.run(ApplicationConfiguration.class, args);
}
public ServletRegistrationBean jerseyServlet(){
ServletRegistrationBean register = new ServletRegistrationBean(new ServletContainer(),"/*");
register.addInitParameter(ServletProperties.JAXRS_APPLICATION_CLASS, JerseyInitalize.class.getName());
return register;
}
}
JerseyConfiguration:
import org.glassfish.jersey.server.ResourceConfig;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
#Component
public class JerseyInitalize extends ResourceConfig{
public JerseyInitalize(){
super();
this.packages("com.cst.interfaces");
}
}
Controller Class:
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
#RestController
#Path("/home")
public class HomeResource {
#GET
#Produces("application/json")
public String getString(){
return "index.html";
}
}

Answer 1

This is because you annotated your controller with #RestController, which is a shorthand for #Controller with #ResponseBody. The latter annotation instructs the controller to render the output as-is directly into the response.
Use #Controller for controllers that are not RESTful instead.