Vaadin Blog
Community Spotlight - January 2016
In the end of last year, our Community Spotlights were quite focused on new add-ons published to Directory. It has been really active on that front lately as well, but this time, let’s concentrate on some of the most interesting articles and examples you have recently created. MVP in Vaadin Spring ...
Vaadin Docs – a step further to online documentation
A few years ago Vaadin was a company with only one big product, namely Vaadin Framework. The documentation for Vaadin Framework has been presented in the form of Book of Vaadin, which we are very proud of and to be honest, the name has always been a nice addition, as well. Over the years, however, ...
UX tips videos, part one
User Experience can be a win or lose factor for your web app. Even if you develop the greatest features, but without great UX, your app might crash and burn. So what is good UX and how can you achieve it? Surprisingly, quite often it is the little things that make it or break it. For this reason, ...
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 ...