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5 datepicker web components for your site
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. Choosing a date is a very common task in any UI. Making that intuitive and easy for users can be ...
Convert from Java Swing to a Vaadin web app | Vaadin
Migrating applications is hard. I think most readers to relate to that. Everyone who has undertaken the task of migrating an existing application that is used in production has undoubtedly faced many pain points in the process. Migrating from Swing and a single-user desktop UI to the web comes with ...
Vaadin 10 Beta
I am really excited that we are finally ready to share the first beta of the next generation Vaadin platform with you after years of work. Before jumping to explaining what is in it, let's discuss a bit about the background. Built for the modern mobile-first web Today there are three significant ...
How Vaadin has helped our customers succeed
Vaadin is used by over 40% of Fortune 100 companies and over 150 000 developers, but what do those users really value in Vaadin? I went through all the success stories to dissect the commonalities and to have a look backwards at what has made Vaadin what it is today. Consider this a nostalgia trip ...
Microservices: UI composition
In this article, Microservices: UI composition, we'll learn how to implement two separate independent Vaadin applications rendered in a single web page. We have covered service discovery, externalized configuration, stateless services, and fault tolerance. In this article, we’ll learn how to ...
Meet more talented Vaadiners
You have had a chance to get to know some of the Vaadiners within these previous weeks. I hope you have liked what you have seen thus far, and there is more to come. Meet more of our talents: Get to Know Vaadiners #10 Eero Mäkelä, Brand Designer Hey guys! My job in Vaadin revolves around making ...
Microservices: Fault Tolerance
In the previous article of this series, we developed two functional microservices: a REST web service, and a web UI for it. In this article, we’ll add fault tolerance capabilities, by making the web UI resilient to failures in the REST web service. Why do we need this? Microservices depend on other ...
A look back at the blooming of web-component and Polymer library 2017
Alex Russell first introduced Web Components at the Fronteers Conference in 2011. He sketched a Platonic ideal of componentized web elements, a new feature which is ubiquitous and reusable. 2 years after, at Google I/O 2013, Google announced the release of Polymer. The way Polymer works is believed ...
Microservices: Consuming stateless services from Vaadin UIs
In the previous articles of this series, we focused on developing orchestration services to enable microservices. We implemented a Discovery Server to let applications consume services without knowing their exact location, and a Configuration Server to allow microservices to run in multiple ...