Spring REST, how to provide access to static resources?

Question

Java

Let's say we have a REST application in Spring. How to give the client static files (HTML, CSS, JS)? Is it necessary to set up a proxy server? If so, how to restrict access to HTML pages?

Answer 1

location / {
   root /path/to/static;
}

location /api/v1 {
   # do connection to spring
}

Answer 2

google://spring mvc static resources
google://spring boot static resources
I hope you choose? ;)