Vaadin Blog
New Vaadin, Angular and React comparison tool
One of the most natural ways of learning for us humans (sorry, Google bot) is to compare new concepts we come across with something we already know from before. "What's a dosa?" — It's like a savory Indian crepe made with fermented rice and lentil dough and filled with deliciousness. "How is the ...
Enabling Live Reload in Vaadin 14.3
Vaadin 14.3 ships with a new Live Reload feature that lets you see your UI changes in the browser without a manual refresh. It is automatically enabled in development mode and does not require any browser plugins. Read on to get started with Live Reload with JRebel, HotswapAgent, or Spring Boot dev ...
The future of Vaadin events
As COVID-19 forced the cancellation of all physical events and meet-ups across the globe, we, like many other businesses, opted to move our events to online platforms. We recently held the first ever online Vaadin Dev Day. This event gives the Vaadin community the opportunity to connect with our ...
3 megatrends shaping the future of enterprise business web applications
Enterprise web applications have increased in prominence for companies across the board. In some sectors, well-established industry leaders face increasing competition from disrupters who only conduct business online. The days when your web assets become more valuable than your physical assets do ...
Vaadin Dev Day videos now available
The latest edition of the Vaadin Dev Day training was held online this year. The event sold-out in only two days after the official announcement with 300 hundred sign ups. It included three live technical talks focused on web development with Vaadin. If you missed it, you can watch the three ...
Bridging the gap between Vaadin decision makers and customers all over the world
Vaadin held the first Vaadin Insights Online event for customers in the Americas, and the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions during the last 2 weeks of April 2020. The event focused on current trends in web app development and design systems, and included three great presentations during 3 webinars. Our ...
A modernization of an advanced backend system by the Norwegian Gaming Foundation
The Norwegian Gaming and Foundation Authority´s application "Anleggsregisteret" is developed by the Norwegian Foundation and Gaming Authority on behalf of the Ministry of Culture. The application consists of a backend system used to handle the requests for subsidies and a registry of the facilities ...
Localization gets an update with right-to-left (RTL) support
We’re excited to announce that Vaadin’s localization capabilities just got a major upgrade with the implementation of right-to-left (RTL) script support-- one of the Vaadin community’s most-requested and long-awaited features. What is RTL support? A number of the world’s major languages rely on ...
Building a chatbot app in Java
Ever since I played my first role-based video game, I’ve been interested in chatbots (aka chatterbots). How could I implement something like this? Sure, I could code a bunch of if...else statements, but that sounded like a lot of work. Some years ago, I discovered AIML (Artificial Intelligence ...