Vaadin Blog
Comparison Tool for Web Frameworks
When encountering something new, such as a new web framework, we’d like to quickly put it into context in order to know what it is and what problem it’s trying to solve. This is how the human mind works – we compare new things to previous experiences to be able to quickly decide if it’s a thing for ...
CDN is here – a global network of widgetsets
Widgetsets – those pesky little creatures living inside your browsers are the pain point of any developer. You know they speed up your app for your clients but it’s a pain in the llama’s ass to compile a new one after adding a new add-on to your project. We felt your pain and are thus happy to ...
Vaadin Charts 3.0 Is Here
Vaadin Charts 3.0 Final is out now. It brings you OHLC and candlestick chart types for displaying financial data, a way to display event markers on a graph, a new improved timeline mode, and a lot of fixes and smaller improvements. It is also our first commercial add-on that is available for ...
Using ContextMenu with Vaadin 7.6
Although Vaadin ContextMenu was published as a separate add-on in Directory, we tend to consider it as a feature of the recent 7.6 release. The latest minor release added essential hooks that make it simple to catch raw “contextmenu” events and build components that take the advantage of them. As ...
Community Survey February Results
We’re running a continuous survey on the Vaadin community to understand where you are and what other tech you’re using with Vaadin. We can see that there are approximately 150 000 developers using Vaadin actively so a few hundred can only tell you so much – but it’s nonetheless important ...
Vaadin Dev Day New York in May
As you might know Vaadin Dev Day is hosted in Berlin, Germany on May 24th – BUT we're also in New York on May 26th with the same setup! The top 5 reasons for joining the event are: You’ll learn more than anywhere else in one day about Vaadin development You’ll get to ask questions from core Vaadin ...
Using U2F dongles for two-factor authentication
Two-factor authentication is common way to add an extra layer of security. One time passwords, for example time based passwords and a helper app running in a mobile phone, is one way to implement it, but requires an inconvenient user action. Similar extra layer of security can be accomplished with ...
Vaadin Charts for the Web Component world
We’re currently building the next version of Vaadin Charts which will include a web component API in addition to the Java API. Vaadin Charts is the first chart library in the world with a comprehensive web component API. Now you can easily add charts to your web pages in a clean and familiar way. ...
Vaadin Framework tutorial renewed
Publishing a new version of a tutorial is not necessarily the most interesting thing for existing Vaadin developers, but we believe this will help many new developers to become addicted to the simplicity of Vaadin development. In case you have friends, who you think should have Vaadin in their ...