Going Web Native

The web has evolved immensely in the last couple years and with it, so have the technologies. In this article we explore going Native Apps v Web Apps. I visit conferences and meetups, speak with incredibly smart people, and have time to investigate new and exciting technologies to see how they fit ...

Vaadin Core Elements 2 Roadmap

Polymer 2 support, more components, and theming support These are exciting times for Web developers. More and more browsers have shipped native support for Web Components, allowing us to rely less on polyfills and finally realize the full potential of Web Components. You might have seen that Google ...

Using Web Components in jQuery projects

One of the great things about Web Components is that they can easily be used in existing applications without requiring you to re-architect the application. This makes Web Components like Vaadin Elements a great resource for jQuery developers – it gives you many more options when it comes to high ...

Community Spotlight – June 2016

A few weeks back Vaadin organized a Progressive Web App programming competition, giving the winners a chance to attend Google Progressive Web App Developer Summit in Amsterdam. In this month’s Community Spotlight, we want to introduce the winners of the competition and showcase the cool projects ...

Date Picker and Upload Element 1.0 betas released

Choosing a date is a common requirement in business applications. We wanted to provide an effortless and intuitive way of scrolling through months and years to find the date you are looking for. As a result, we just released the vaadin-date-picker element with two scrolling areas – one for months ...

Vaadin Elements – a set of Web Components for business apps

As you have probably noticed, we recently introduced a new product called Vaadin Elements. Vaadin Elements builds on the Web Components standards and Google Polymer and will allow you to start using Vaadin components in any front end framework – like jQuery, Angular 2, React, Ember 2 or any plain ...