Vaadin Blog

Vaadin Dev Day online is here again
And it's free! At Vaadin Dev Day events, you get to see developers from the Vaadin team presenting technical topics on web development. Traditionally, this event is held in person in different cities throughout the year. At the beginning of 2020, this changed and the event was moved online and ...

TypeScript, client-side views and endpoints in Vaadin - Q&A
Edit: This post has been updated to reflect the new Vaadin Flow/Fusion product naming. We introduced a new TypeScript API for building client-side views in Vaadin 15, called Vaadin Fusion. It is a new framework alongside the existing Vaadin Flow framework. In Vaadin 16 and 17, we added support for ...

An introduction to real-time collaboration in business critical applications
(Part 1 of 4) Many businesses are looking beyond geographic borders to procure the best workforce, customers, vendors and partners. In other words, organizations are becoming increasingly more distributed as they conduct business across the globe. This means that online workflows (the sequence of ...

Vaadin 17 includes a major Vaadin Charts upgrade
We released a major upgrade for Vaadin Charts as part of Vaadin 17. Read on to learn about the Java API for styling, new chart types, and how to upgrade. Java API to style charts returns The Java API to style charts is back in Vaadin 17! In Vaadin 8, it was possible to style charts using only Java, ...

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 ...

Vaadin 17 is packed with data binding improvements
Vaadin 17 is the latest milestone release (see our release model), it brings new features and enhancements to both server-side views and client-side views. Read about the Grid data binding improvements, new chart types, and form binding API for client-side views. For the rest of the release ...

New Vaadin 14 Reference Card now available!
I'm glad to announce the availability of the renewed version of the Vaadin Reference Card (previously known as the Vaadin Refcard). This reference card is tailored to developers with previous Vaadin experience. It is a quick reference with condensed information on key concepts and everyday tasks ...

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 ...