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Testing Vaadin applications with Selenium vs Testbench
Overview Selenium helps to automate web applications for testing purposes. The wide browser support and open source licensing makes Selenium very popular for testing Javascript applications and also a core technology for other automation testing tools. Vaadin Testbench is a testing tool for mainly ...
Scalable web applications
Scalability is your web application's ability to handle a growing number of concurrent users. Explore our analysis of how scalable a web app needs to be. Will it be intended for small scale intranet usage of tens to hundreds of concurrent users, or do you plan to reach for a medium size global web ...
Vaadin Elements – a set of Web Components for business apps
As you have probably noticed, we recently introduced a new product called Vaadin Elements. Vaadin Elements builds on the Web Components standards and Google Polymer and will allow you to start using Vaadin components in any front end framework – like jQuery, Angular 2, React, Ember 2 or any plain ...
Community Spotlight - November 2015
It’s been a busy autumn for all of us, but the awesome Vaadin community has found some time to squeeze out quite a lot of cool stuff. Let’s cover some of that. Challenge Many developers have been busy participating in Vaadin Challenge. In this competition, organized together with IBM, you can learn ...
Free certification week
The free certification week is on! NOTE: This blog post is outdated. Head over to the Learning Centre for our current selection of free training videos and certifications! This week you can become a certified Vaadin developer and join 500 others for free! A Vaadin certificate shows that you’ve ...
Lots of new Vaadin + Liferay material available
The Liferay portal has always been a popular basis for Vaadin applications, so for this year’s Liferay Symposium we wanted to publish some fresh learning material - especially for new Vaadin developers. We created a full-stack example portlet, published a couple of smaller tricks for Liferay ...
Vaadin Certification week coming up!
For the last week of November, 23rd-29th 2015, you have the opportunity to become a Vaadin Certified developer with no cost at all. With a Vaadin certificate in your CV and on LinkedIn, you have proof that you have what it takes to be a Vaadin expert. The certification test is an online test that ...
Building a comprehensive UI from scratch with Vaadin Designer
After releasing Vaadin Designer 1.0, we decided that showing what it can do is more valuable than just talking about it. So we decided to build something substantial from scratch. No simple hello-worlds or one-liner examples but something real. We got inspired by a cool project we found at ...
Vaadin Debug Window
Recently we hosted a webinar on how to use the Debug-window in your Vaadin application, going through all its benefits for you. Every application built with Vaadin Framework comes with a built-in feature to inspect the application. This feature is active in development mode (i.e. when ...