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Introducing UI Unit Testing with TestBench

Whether you’re testing your application manually or automatically, it’s important that you find looming errors before your users do. UI Unit Testing is a new feature of Vaadin TestBench that we released with the latest minor platform version, Vaadin 23.2. UI Unit Testing allows you to write unit ...
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Vaadin 23.2: Better than ever

It’s time for another minor release: New features, improvements, and more! So, upgrade to Vaadin 23.2 and enjoy the Multi-Select Combo Box component, browser-less testing with TestBench, auto-complete for web components in IntelliJ, and many other fixes and improvements. The previous minor release, ...
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Enable Live Reload for your Vaadin project

Vaadin Flow supports live reload features out of the box. This enables developers to view their changes in the browser without manually restarting the server and refreshing the browser after each change in the code. In this blog post, I'll show you how to enable automatic browser reloads for your ...

New release: Hilla 1.1

The first new Hilla minor release, version 1.1, is out now! We roll out updates to the Hilla framework with quarterly minor releases that both fix bugs and introduce new features. The previous version, Hilla 1.0.6, is being maintained for 3 more months – so update now! What's new? Hilla 1.1 ships ...
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Vaadin 23.1: The first new minor release!

Vaadin is becoming even better with the upcoming minor releases. You can access the new features and improvements, such as the LumoUtility Java API and improved Grid, in the first minor release, Vaadin 23.1. We adopted a simplified release model with Vaadin 23 two months ago. This model enables us ...
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Building accessible web apps with Vaadin

Accessibility in web application development is about removing barriers that could prevent people from accessing or using a digital product, such as a website or mobile app. With an estimated one billion people experiencing some form of disability, and the digital transformation from office to home ...

Turo Italia enabled real-time collaboration for their CRM

A new version of Turo Italia’s Customer Resource Management (or CRM) system was released at the end of 2021. Built with Vaadin 14, it enables real-time collaboration between users thanks to the Vaadin Collaboration Kit. Turo Italia is now looking at Vaadin 23 for new data-provider functionality and ...
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Free Vaadin 8 support is over. What happens next?

After 5 years of free support, Vaadin 8 has reached its end of life. While applications developed with the unsupported framework will keep running, they will no longer receive security updates, compatibility patches and bug fixes. We recommend all projects to upgrade to the latest version, Vaadin ...
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Vaadin 23 is finally here!

Vaadin 23 is finally here! It paves the road for our new, simplified release model where we recommend the latest Vaadin version to every user. The release already ships with new features and improvements, yet thanks to the upcoming minor releases (Vaadin 23.1, 23.2 and so forth) there are many more ...