Announcing the new Vaadin Community Discord Chat

Update 2024-03-15: We have discontinued Discord as our main forum. Instead, go to vaadin.com/forum to ask for help and share your feedback. You know the feeling. You've been staring at your code for 15 minutes. You’ve debugged it a bit. Maybe you’ve even checked page 2 on Google. But no. It's still ...

Building and maintaining the component library of a design system

The main purpose of adopting and using a design system is to ensure consistency with minimal time and effort in the long run. However, there’s no such thing as a “free lunch”. The trade-off of a design system is the time and effort required to implement and maintain it. It’s an investment, but you ...

Introducing Vaadin Flow and Fusion

We received a lot of feedback from our community regarding the TypeScript view support we added in Vaadin 15. Many of you were excited about the new capabilities it offers for Vaadin apps. But, there was also some confusion about this change. In particular, many in our community asked: "How does ...

Meet Collaboration Engine: The simplest way to build collaborative web apps

(Part 2 of 4) Today, we launch the first iteration of Collaboration Engine: The world’s simplest solution for building powerful, real-time collaboration features into web applications. Read on to learn more about the problems we set out to solve, how Collaboration Engine works, and how you can ...
What is tactical domain-driven design

DDD Part 2: Tactical Domain-Driven Design

This is the second part of our in-depth series on Domain-Driven Design (DDD). Part one discusses strategic domain-driven design, whereas, in part three, you'll learn how to apply domain-driven design to working software using Java and Vaadin. Updated for 2024. Tactical DDD is a set of design ...
AXPM

AXPM made dental practices UX-first with Vaadin's support

AXPM one is a lightweight and powerful office solution that helps Dental and Orthodontology specialty practices run their entire business from revenue to property and customer data inside one system. Health as a priority AXPM got started in the dental industry by realizing it wasn't taking care of ...
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Vaadin and Hazelcast: A match made in heaven

On my personal blog, I wrote some time ago a lengthy piece listing the reasons why I love Vaadin. However, a technology stack has both pros and cons. It fits some contexts better than some others. Vaadin is like any other stack in that regard: because it stores state on the server, it’s not a good ...

Future of HTML templates in Vaadin

Late last year, we announced that we are gradually moving away from Google's Polymer JavaScript library in favor of the far more lightweight and performant LitElement library. The next LTS, which is currently targeted for the latter half of 2021, will make Polymer optional for HTML templates. Using ...

Learning Maven Concepts

Maven is a tool that many Java developers use on a daily basis. You can get started with Maven and incorporate it into your everyday life fairly quickly: Install Maven, download, checkout, or create a new Maven project, run mvn install, and execute the application through a plugin goal such as mvn ...