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Web vs Native Mobile Apps: What's the Best for Your Java Development?

One of the first challenges in building an application is deciding which platforms to support. Native mobile apps offer great usability but are expensive to build. On the other hand, web apps work on all platforms but have traditionally been unable to deliver the same user experience as native ...

Sending web push notifications from Spring Boot

Web push notifications are a way of informing your app users when something important has happened. Users can receive web push notifications even when they are not actively using your application, for instance, if the app is open in a background tab or even if it's not open. A notification message ...
securing apps with spring boot and vaadin

Securing Vaadin apps with Spring Security

Getting security right is critical when building web apps. The upside of building a web app is that people can use it wherever they are, on any device. But you need to ensure that only the right people are able to access it, and that they have access to only the features you intended. In this ...

Announcing the new Vaadin Community Discord Chat

Update 2024-03-15: We have discontinued Discord as our main forum. Instead, go to vaadin.com/forum to ask for help and share your feedback. You know the feeling. You've been staring at your code for 15 minutes. You’ve debugged it a bit. Maybe you’ve even checked page 2 on Google. But no. It's still ...

Introducing Vaadin Flow and Fusion

We received a lot of feedback from our community regarding the TypeScript view support we added in Vaadin 15. Many of you were excited about the new capabilities it offers for Vaadin apps. But, there was also some confusion about this change. In particular, many in our community asked: "How does ...
Vaadin, Angular and React comparison tool

New Vaadin, Angular and React comparison tool

One of the most natural ways of learning for us humans (sorry, Google bot) is to compare new concepts we come across with something we already know from before. "What's a dosa?" — It's like a savory Indian crepe made with fermented rice and lentil dough and filled with deliciousness. "How is the ...

Free ebook: Modern Web Apps with Spring Boot and Vaadin

The popular tutorial series on building modern web apps with Spring Boot and Vaadin is now available as a free downloadable PDF for your offline enjoyment. This is really good, no excellent in fact. - nparsona on YouTube The guide covers everything you need to know to build and deploy a ...

Reactive Chat App with Spring Boot, Project Reactor, and Vaadin

In this tutorial, we learn how to build a reactive chat application. The backend consists of a Spring Boot Application, reactive data types from Project Reactor, and Vaadin for the UI layer. Figure 1. The chat app with a header, messages, and an input layout Downloading the starter project Start by ...

Vaadin Key Concepts

This document is meant for developers who are new to Vaadin and want to get up to speed quickly. It gives you a quick overview of the core concepts and provides links to relevant documentation for further reading. It can also be used as a quick reference while developing Vaadin apps. If you don’t ...