Vaadin Dev Day in Munich in November 2016

Vaadin 8 is closing and this brings us new data binding APIs. What does that mean to my applications? How can I ensure that end-users enjoy using my applications? How do I design better applications? What do other Vaadin developers do to keep themselves productive? We have good news for you! We ...

Visualizing data in a React app with Vaadin Charts 3.2

Vaadin Charts 3.2 is here. With the latest release, we continue to cater to the newest client-side libraries. The new version brings you improved integration to the React JavaScript library. Before version 3.2 you were able to use Vaadin Charts for your React charts, but you had to write a bit more ...

We are Vaadin - Sebastian from the Vaadin Berlin office

Sebastian works at the Vaadin office in Berlin and is currently occupied with some upcoming new products and proof of concepting them. He joined Vaadin in the beginning of March, so only 5 months in the company and already working in Vaadin projects at full speed. Q. What did you do before Vaadin? ...

Adventures in SEO

TL;DR: Vaadin was hardly SEO-friendly in the past. Not anymore, with the new Volga library. Bookmarking pages Bookmarking is as old as www itself. Being able to save an URL is part of the ADN of websites. Regarding web apps, this is somewhat different. For example, in an e-commerce webapp, while it ...

Vaadin Framework 7.7 is out

On behalf of the Vaadin team, I am pleased to announce a new release, Vaadin Framework 7.7.0. The release contains major improvements for widgetset handling and a bunch of bug fixes. Much less GWT (compiling) By default the concept of widgetset is now completely hidden and you don’t need to think ...

Using Web Components in jQuery projects

One of the great things about Web Components is that they can easily be used in existing applications without requiring you to re-architect the application. This makes Web Components like Vaadin Elements a great resource for jQuery developers – it gives you many more options when it comes to high ...

Vaadin Elements in mobile apps

Vaadin Elements has been paving the way as the go-to UI components library for progressive web apps. But what about mobile apps? To use Vaadin Elements in a mobile app, you need to have the same web view as you would have in the browser. Thanks to open source SDKs, like Ionic with Cordova, you can ...

Building a Web UI for PostgreSQL Databases using MyBatis and Vaadin

This guide walks you through the process of connecting to PostgreSQL databases from Java web applications using MyBatis and Spring Framework. The UI part will be built using Vaadin Framework which allows you to build modern single-page web apps with only Java. When connecting to databases from Java ...

Community Spotlight - July 2016

It’s time for another chapter of the Community Spotlight! And for this month’s edition, I had the opportunity to have a nice chat with Marco Collovati, winner of the IBM/Vaadin Challenge, author of the Spinkit Add-on for Vaadin, and active member of the Vaadin Community. Marco lives in Udine, a ...