Vaadin Blog
Vaadin Dev Day in Munich in November 2016
Vaadin 8 is closing and this brings us new data binding APIs. What does that mean to my applications? How can I ensure that end-users enjoy using my applications? How do I design better applications? What do other Vaadin developers do to keep themselves productive? We have good news for you! We ...
Visualizing data in a React app with Vaadin Charts 3.2
Vaadin Charts 3.2 is here. With the latest release, we continue to cater to the newest client-side libraries. The new version brings you improved integration to the React JavaScript library. Before version 3.2 you were able to use Vaadin Charts for your React charts, but you had to write a bit more ...
We are Vaadin - Sebastian from the Vaadin Berlin office
Sebastian works at the Vaadin office in Berlin and is currently occupied with some upcoming new products and proof of concepting them. He joined Vaadin in the beginning of March, so only 5 months in the company and already working in Vaadin projects at full speed. Q. What did you do before Vaadin? ...
Adventures in SEO
TL;DR: Vaadin was hardly SEO-friendly in the past. Not anymore, with the new Volga library. Bookmarking pages Bookmarking is as old as www itself. Being able to save an URL is part of the ADN of websites. Regarding web apps, this is somewhat different. For example, in an e-commerce webapp, while it ...
Demystifying widget set cloud compilation
The Vaadin Framework 7.7 release brought major improvements for widgetset handling in general. Probably the most interesting part in the new release is the possibility to delegate the time consuming widgetset compilation to a cloud service, which can also host your widgetset. These are big changes ...
Community Spotlight - August 2016
Welcome to another edition of Vaadin Community Spotlight. This month I had the opportunity to talk to Benjamin Larsen. Benjamin is a Software Developer who works for TDC, a big telecommunications company in Denmark, and he has been using Vaadin recently to develop an interesting web application. ...
Vaadin Framework 7.7 is out
On behalf of the Vaadin team, I am pleased to announce a new release, Vaadin Framework 7.7.0. The release contains major improvements for widgetset handling and a bunch of bug fixes. Much less GWT (compiling) By default the concept of widgetset is now completely hidden and you don’t need to think ...
Simplifying Multiplicities for Agile MVP
It’s 2016 and guess who just turned 20 years old? Extreme Programming! You might not have thought it was around that long but Ron Jeffries in his “XP at 20” webpages assures us we can start counting from the year 1996. You might remember the first book on XP was published in October 1999, but Kent ...
My best practices for Vaadin add-on projects
A good software project should be easy to build, fast to develop and it should be simple to test. This is also the case for Vaadin add-ons, which are not the most trivial kind of software projects on the Earth. The de-facto method for creating Vaadin add-ons is a Maven project template called ...