LiquidityWell streamlines their development process with Vaadin Flow

We are always curious to hear how developers have built successful products using Vaadin and our components. For this “Built with Vaadin” post, we caught up with London-based company LiquidityWell, and got to chatting about how they streamlined the development process of their client’s application ...
tips for improving web app accessibility

Basic Tips for Improving Accessibility

User Experience is a core value of the Vaadin team. This post is part of our series on UX in the Enterprise and highlights the importance of accessibility in building modern enterprise web applications. In this article we're going to go over some basic tips and tricks for improving the ...
Tetris-clone with Vaadin Flow

Server-side Tetris with Vaadin Flow

The server-side nature of Vaadin Flow often causes concerns for those who evaluate it: The UI must be slow, as the UI logic is on the server and the “chatty” connection will bring the server to its knees. In this era, it can be hard to convince your boss or fellow engineers in the face of these ...

Read and Display a CSV File in Java

This guide demonstrates how to import a CSV file in Java and display it in a data grid. In this guide, we create a web app that enables users to upload a CSV file to the server, where the file content is processed, and displayed back to the user’s UI inside a data grid. The web app is developed ...

Packaging and deploying Spring Boot applications as WAR files

This guide explains how to: Package a Maven-based Spring Boot application as a WAR file Deploy a WAR file to Apache Tomcat Deploy a WAR file to Eclipse Jetty Packaging a Maven-based Spring Boot application as a WAR file To change the packaging in a Maven-based Spring Boot application that was ...

Enable Users to Upload & Download Files

This guide demonstrates how to create a web app that enables users to upload and download files to and from the server in Java. In this guide, we create a web app that enables users to upload and download files to and from the server. The UI allows users to select local files to be uploaded to the ...
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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 ...

Are Progressive Web Apps the future?

Today, mobile phones account for more than half of all web traffic. They have become mini personal computers found in the pockets of users, due to their portability, easy access to the internet, and the exponential growth of services provided over mobile. Users expect websites to function quickly ...

Dynamic Theming in Vaadin Flow

The application with different theme variants Whether for multi-tenancy or user preference, the need to dynamically change the theming of an application is a common business application need. In this post, we show how it’s done using CSS custom properties and HTML attributes. Vaadin 14.6 brought an ...