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Why it's faster to use Vaadin Designer than write Java
I’ve always been against WYSIWYG editors since the early days of Windows GUI design tools, because I felt that with those tools developing good-looking UIs was slower than writing code. I did some testing to find out which one actually is faster: my fingers and Eclipse auto-complete, or Vaadin ...
Vaadin Designer 1.2 with responsive templates
Vaadin Designer 1.2 comes with powerful new responsive design templates. With the new templates creating responsive application views is easier than ever before. You use a template by creating a design: File ‣ New ‣ Vaadin Design. With Designer 1.2 you now have four new templates to choose from: ...
Community Spotlight - December 2016
Time for another episode of Vaadin Community Spotlight. This time I had the opportunity to talk with Ángel Martínez. Ángel Martínez has a BSc and MSc in Telecommunications Engineering and a Masters degree in Business Development & Digital Marketing. He has more than 10 years experience working ...
2016 Recap
That’s it folks. We are ready to move this year into the “Done” column. I guess we are all eager to jump ahead to 2017 already, but let’s take the traditional retrospective of 2016 before doing that. As a company we have continued the steady growth. Our internal chat channel now lists 137 members. ...
TestBench 4.2 is out with new convenience methods
TestBench 4.2 brings you a very nice improvement for screenshot testing, a few convenience methods, easier configuration of parallel testing, and bug fixes. Taking screenshots of individual elements Using the screenshot testing feature of TestBench makes it easy to validate that your custom ...
Vaadin 8 beta is out - we need your help!
Update: We are now in RC state, help us to iron out the last bugs before first stable release! I’m happy to announce that the first beta version of the next major Vaadin Framework release is out. As discussed earlier, version 8 is a huge step forward taking advantage of the greatest and latest Java ...
Microservices and Vaadin UIs
If you have been following the web development industry in the last years, there’s a good chance that you have at least heard about microservices architectures. Some would say microservices are a specialization of SOA, others that microservices are the same as SOA, or that microservices are SOA ...
GitHub transition: completed
Like the most active of you have already noticed, Vaadin has been moving its open source functions to GitHub. Today, we can finally say we are there. Vaadin Framework is the biggest and the most important project to adapt a fully GitHub based workflow. What does this mean to you? In short: forget ...
Date-picker gets even better for December
Vaadin Elements has just been updated with improvement to vaadin-date-picker. This update brings some customizability to the element, as well as accessibility and performance improvements. Max and min date limits can now be added with the `min` and `max` properties. Now you’ll never accidentally ...