Introducing geo-location, a web component which lets you easily locate, track or reverse geocode your current location

Web Components Wednesday (WCW) blog series is created for two purposes: introducing easy-to-use components and educating people on the concept of Web Components. All the WCW blogs can be found here. Nowadays, many companies make use of location tracking to create different apps, and such purposes ...

8 best Polymer carousel web components for your next web app

Web Components Wednesday (WCW) blog series is created for two purposes: introducing easy-to-use components and educating people on the concept of Web Components. All the WCW blogs can be found here. The carousel is a sophisticated but super effective UI component. It is used to revolve around a ...
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Using a WebAssembly Module with Vaadin Flow

Utilizing WebAssembly modules (WASM) increase the performance and efficiency of a web application. With Vaadin Flow, loading a WASM can be as simple as writing the proper fetch statement in one of your Polymer templates. Flow also allows developers to easily control the use of these modules from ...

This web component, gif-player, lets you control the playback of your gif

Web Components Wednesday (WCW) blog series is created for two purposes: introducing easy-to-use components and educating people on the concept of Web Components. All the WCW blogs can be found here. Is it pronounced “gif” or “jif”? We do not really know. However, we do know one super awesome gif ...

Top 5 web components for password input

Web Components Wednesday (WCW) blog series is created for two purposes: introducing easy-to-use components and educating people on the concept of Web Components. All the WCW blogs can be found here. Do you know that the first Thursday of May of each year is the World Password Day? The original idea ...

Microservices: Health monitoring

In previous articles of this series, we discussed high availability and fault tolerance capabilities to make services resilient to failures in external services. In this article, we’ll add “health endpoints” and implement a dashboard to visually monitor service status. Why do we need this? ...

Microservices: High availability

One of the objectives of microservices is to allow independent deployment and scaling of applications. We already learned how to create a UI composition in the previous article of this series. In this article, we’ll learn how to replicate stateful web applications to help supporting high ...

5 spinner web components for your site

Web Components Wednesday (WCW) blog series is created for two purposes: introducing easy-to-use components and educating people on the concept of Web Components. All the WCW blogs can be found here. When it comes to loading or downloading, the longer you see a spinner, the more pain you will ...

5 datepicker web components for your site

Web Components Wednesday (WCW) blog series is created for two purposes: introducing easy-to-use components and educating people on the concept of Web Components. All the WCW blogs can be found here. Choosing a date is a very common task in any UI. Making that intuitive and easy for users can be ...