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New learning resource for Progressive Web Apps for business
You may have noticed that we've been writing a lot about Progressive Web Apps (PWA) lately. PWA are a way to deliver native like user experiences on mobile devices without the cost of developing and distributing separate apps for different mobile platforms. They also offer your users an easier way ...
Vaadin on Heroku
A big part of my time I get busy creating Vaadin tutorials, and I always wish I can deploy them somewhere publicly for demo purposes. But that has not always been easy, since I need a backend server ready for Vaadin Framework. I also need to occasionally update the server, whenever I make changes ...
Microservices: Externalized Configuration
In the previous article of this series, we implemented a Discovery Server to allow microservices to consume other microservices without knowing their exact location. The code is available on GitHub, and you can find the instructions to run the demo application in the first article of this series. ...
Vaadin Directory now also lists Web Components
Vaadin Directory has been the place to find extra 3rd party components and tools for Vaadin users for over 7 years already. Now, in addition to the 733 Vaadin and GWT components listed before, we’ve added a total of 467 3rd party web components in Vaadin Directory. Why? Compatible with Vaadin 8 and ...
Vaadin Framework 8.3 is now stable
It’s my pleasure to announce that Vaadin Framework 8.3.0 is now out and ready for general usage. As discussed in the previous beta blog entry, the most significant enhancements are in the integration libraries to Spring and CDI. Also, many components have received nice improvements. To take ...
Meet Some Talented Vaadiners
Vaadin provides developer tools, components, and services for building modern web applications, but who are the people behind Vaadin? Who proudly carry the message “Fight For Simplicity”, constantly keeps customers in their mind and thrive to give solutions to the Vaadin community? Together we are ...
Microservices: Service Registration and Discovery
In the previous article of this series, we explored a demo application designed with a microservices architecture and implemented with Spring Boot and Vaadin Framework 8. The demo application is available on GitHub and you can follow the instructions there to run it by yourself. In this article, ...
Desktop UIs will stay alive thanks to Web Technologies
What is wrong with Java Desktop technologies? To understand what’s wrong with Java Desktop apps, let's take a look at the new features of JavaFX, the most leading UI framework for desktop applications. It becomes obvious that it is trending towards the web approaches, borrowing more and more ...
Community Answer: Implementing a Side Menu with View Navigation
This week’s answer is inspired by a direct question I found on YouTube: Using Vaadin Framework 8.2, I was able to quickly implement a simple application with a side menu, containing options that change the main content of the UI when they are clicked and keeping the back and forward buttons of the ...