Using Vaadin WebComponents in the RedisConf Keynote

Kyle J. Davis is the Technical Marketing Manager at Redis Labs. Aside from crafting code in Rust or Javascript, he presents and writes about Redis. Kyle lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. A few weeks before our annual conference, RedisConf, our CTO tapped me to create a demo for the keynote. No ...

Forum, chat, and other ways to connect with the Vaadin community

The main driving factor of Vaadin's success is you, our developer community. With Vaadin 10 is in beta, we’ve seen a lot of new people evaluating Vaadin. To welcome everyone, I want to review the ways you can get help and talk with others in the community. The Vaadin forum Vaadin has always had an ...

What happened to Vaadin Elements?

One of the changes introduced with the Vaadin 10 beta release is that there is no longer a separate product called Vaadin Elements. We now call them Vaadin components. You can find them at vaadin.com/components. Backstory: why there were Elements in the first place The development of our set of Web ...

10 reasons to use Vaadin 10

Vaadin 10 is out and it changes everything! Well, maybe not everything. But it is the biggest update in Vaadin's history. To celebrate, we wanted to highlight some of the features we're most excited about ourselves. Learn more about how to build Java web applications in Vaadin 10 with our training ...

New learning resource for Progressive Web Apps for business

You may have noticed that we've been writing a lot about Progressive Web Apps (PWA) lately. PWA are a way to deliver native like user experiences on mobile devices without the cost of developing and distributing separate apps for different mobile platforms. They also offer your users an easier way ...

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 Elements end of June update

Last month, in time for the Polymer 2 release, we announced pre-releases of all our Core Elements with Polymer 2 support. We're happy to say that we've now finalized the upgrade work and all Elements ship with Polymer 2 support. The updated elements are now easier to use with any framework as they ...

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 ...

Do we still need web frameworks?

The past, present, and future of component-based development on the web In my previous two posts, I’ve compared Polymer and Angular on performance and developer experience. In this final post of the series, I want to take a step back and look at how we ended up in a situation where Google has two ...