Vaadin Blog
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 ...
Community Spotlight: Ben St. Pierre on modernizing oil & gas waste management with Vaadin
The Vaadin Community Spotlight series highlights amazing developers and businesses in the Vaadin community, and provides insight into their latest and greatest projects. Our first article takes a look at how Ben, a software developer based in Canada, is using Vaadin to drive digital transformation ...
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 ...
Vaadin Dev Day October 2020 videos now available
The second free online edition of Vaadin Dev Day took place in October and was a success! We had participants from all over the World. Just for fun, see if your location is on the participant map: The event theme was Vaadin Fusion—a web framework to build UIs using TypeScript and Java backends. The ...
The business case for adopting a design system
Design systems have exploded in the business software community in recent years. Back in 2018 the Enterprise UX Industry Report 2017/ 2018 indicated that 69% of enterprise user experience (UX) teams had adopted one. Today, this camp includes many household (and boardroom) names, including Shopify, ...
PWABuilder and Vaadin
Tech giants Microsoft and Google are pushing progressive web applications (PWAs) as the standard for their app stores. They have independently, and through joint effort, found ways to turn existing web apps into PWAs, and to wrap them to be supported on different platforms. These technologies have ...
Design systems and standards-based Web Components
Design systems become more important as applications grow in complexity and in number. Scalable, reusable and modular code, along with compatible visual assets, are key when organizations build multiple apps for different purposes, but still wish to maintain a level of consistency throughout their ...
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 ...
A sneak-peek at the future of Vaadin’s real-time collaboration features
Last Thursday saw the unveiling of our initial release of Vaadin’s new collaboration feature, which allows developers to rapidly build real-time form editing features directly into Vaadin applications, with only a few lines of code. A stable, beta version of the feature is currently available on ...