learn how to build a custom UI without an API using Vaadin

Implementing a custom UI for a web app that has no API

It has happened before, and it happened again. I found myself dissatisfied with software I had to use multiple times a week. As a professional UI developer, I am particularly sensitive to bad UX. When a perfectly functional phone reservation service for my home island’s ferry was replaced with a ...
Learn how to drag and drop components into your Java UI

Creating Java UIs faster with Vaadin Copilot’s drag-and-drop

There is much more to Vaadin Copilot than AI, and in this article, we’ll examine one feature that can be particularly useful when editing UIs: drag and drop. Whether you're working with Java or React views, Vaadin Copilot makes UI editing faster and more intuitive. The “Copilot” moniker has been ...
Top 5 Vaadin videos in 2024 to take your fulls-tack java development to the next level

Top 5 Vaadin YouTube videos in 2024

2024 was another exciting year for the Vaadin platform! We released some useful new features and celebrated numerous milestones in our stable version of Vaadin 24. The best part is many of these highlights were captured on the Vaadin YouTube channel. If you haven’t had a chance to check them out ...
How to extract data from images using AI and Java

Extracting structured data from images using AI in Java

As AI models have become better at handling multimodal input like images, new opportunities have opened up for us when building business applications in Java. In this blog post, I'll examine how we can use Open AI and Spring AI to extract information from an image into a Java record that we can use ...

The best frontend frameworks to use with Spring Boot in 2025

Spring Boot is a preconfigured version of the Spring framework that makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade applications. Spring Boot is a backend framework that has become a major player in the enterprise Java ecosystem. It lets Java developers start building web applications ...
How to improve link previews of your Vaadin apps

Adding JSON-LD and Open Graph to Vaadin apps for link previews

Links are crucial for user experience and discoverability, even in apps behind login screens. This tutorial shows how to use JSON-LD and Open Graph metadata to create better link previews, improve branding, and boost engagement. So, why does linking even matter? First, we must accept that Vaadin ...
Take your Java Full-Stack development to the next level with Vaadin 24.6.

The Snow Reindeer release: What’s new in Vaadin 24.6

As announced in Joonas Lehtinen’s product keynote at Vaadin Create, with Vaadin 24.6, we’ve taken a step back from introducing new features to focus on something equally important: refining the foundation. This “Snow Reindeer” release is dedicated to enhancing stability, boosting performance, and ...
Best practices for theming Vaadin applications

Theming Vaadin applications: a practical guide

The appearance of a web application plays a key role in the user experience and how your Vaadin application will be accepted in your Usergroup. With Vaadin's powerful theming system and style options, you can customize your application's design to meet the requirements of corporate brandings and ...
The Vaadin Way: A modern approach to building Java web apps

The Vaadin Way: A modern approach to building Java web apps

We understand that building business applications is both an art and a science. Our platform is designed to empower developers to craft modern, high-quality web applications in Java. However, with versatility comes the challenge of figuring out the best way to leverage it—some approaches lead to ...