Vaadin Blog
State of the Vaadin Framework
Greetings from the Vaadin Framework team. While there hasn’t been too many updates aside from release announcements, I think every now and then it is good to let everyone know where we are and what we are doing. In Vaadin 7.4 we introduced the declarative format and released one of the most ...
The Future of Directory is here
Did you notice that Vaadin Directory just got a huge facelift? The preview version has been available for a while, but earlier this week we unveiled the Directory 2.0 to everybody. What’s new? Most notably the whole user interface has been redesigned. Along with a modern and responsive look, we ...
Community Spotlight - March 2015
The Spring of Grid The late winter and early spring has definitely been spiced by the Grid. It has been a huge project in Vaadin, multiple times larger than we initially expected years ago, when it was only a sketch on our chalk boards. In fact, you shouldn't think of the first release just as a ...
Vaadin videos at GWT.create
We're happy to announce that all the GWT.create 2015 presentations are now online and there are lots of interesting talks for Vaadin users on the official Youtube channel. While it’s worth checking out what all the buzz on GWT and Singular on the web is about, you as a Vaadin developer might be ...
Spring news: Beta is in the air
The Vaadin Spring and Vaadin Spring Boot add-ons have now entered the beta phase. There have been lots of questions about the best way of using Spring and Vaadin together. You in the community have made a couple of really nice integrations, but there haven't been any officially supported ways of ...
Creating Vaadin Components with TypeScript
With the introduction of Vaadin 7 it became possible to write components using plain JavaScript. Doing so has the benefit of not having to compile the widgetset, and being able to use the browser development tools without devmode. One of the downsides of using JavaScript is the lack of static ...
Browsersync and JRebel for keeping you in flow
Browsersync is a helpful utility for automatically reloading browser windows when making modifications to your application and also reflecting browser events between multiple browsers. This can be really helpful when testing your application in multiple browsers while developing. To get Browsersync ...
Using Vaadin Grid
Last week we released one of the most important components in the 7.4 version of the framework - the Grid. If you haven’t taken a look at it yet, I can tell you that there are quite a few features that you can use to present and tune to get your data on the screen. Like you know, Grid is now a part ...
Community Spotlight - February 2015
Directory renewal is getting closer. In last month’s episode, we didn’t discuss about the Directory or traditional Vaadin add-ons at all. So lets start with some news about the upcoming Directory renewal. We have just deployed a new version of the preview, now with a fully featured administration ...