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Success story: UX gives you the competitive edge
We’ve lived in a world of bad design and even worse UX. But 18 years ago, a small team of Finnish developers declared their fight against lousy UX with an unbreakable will to create beautiful web apps that users will love. Times have changed ever since. The small Finnish team grew into a global ...
Functional Reactive with Core Java - Part 02
What do we want to achieve? In the last part of this series on Functional Reactive with Core Java, we have done the initial conversions and seen, how the source code changes when we use a few functional elements and aspects. But the question, starting from when do we talk about functional ...
Top 5 web components for password input
Web Components Wednesday (WCW) blog series is created for two purposes: introducing easy-to-use components and educating people on the concept of Web Components. All the WCW blogs can be found here. Do you know that the first Thursday of May of each year is the World Password Day? The original idea ...
Forum, chat, and other ways to connect with the Vaadin community
The main driving factor of Vaadin's success is you, our developer community. With Vaadin 10 is in beta, we’ve seen a lot of new people evaluating Vaadin. To welcome everyone, I want to review the ways you can get help and talk with others in the community. The Vaadin forum Vaadin has always had an ...
Vaadin Framework 8.4 coming out with a bunch of enhancements and improved JDK 10 support
Update: Vaadin Framework 8.4.0 is now available. Alpha releases of Vaadin 8.4 are already available, and the final is scheduled for the 25th of April. The feature release contains enhancements to Grid, TreeGrid, Binder, converters, DateField, BrowserResizeListener and more. ComboBox has a better ...
Functional Reactive with Core Java - Part 01
What do we want to achieve? In this series, we will deal with the subject of Functional Reactive with Core Java. This means that we will examine the areas of functional programming and reactive systems one by one more closely. There are already a lot of systems and libraries, which cover this topic ...
Top slider components using Material Design
Web Components Wednesday (WCW) blog series is created for two purposes: introducing easy-to-use components and educating people on the concept of Web Components. All the WCW blogs can be found here. The slider is one of the most used components in any website or web app. We can use it for choosing ...
Vaadin Directory now welcomes custom GitHub badges
Good news for all component authors! Vaadin Directory now supports custom badges which you can use in your GitHub repository. It’s cool, it’s concise and most of all, it shows meaningful information to your users about your component. Like most GitHub badges, you showcase them by writing some lines ...
Microservices: Health monitoring
In previous articles of this series, we discussed high availability and fault tolerance capabilities to make services resilient to failures in external services. In this article, we’ll add “health endpoints” and implement a dashboard to visually monitor service status. Why do we need this? ...
