Category: Community
Building a real-time collaborative page editor with Vaadin
In January 2023, we hosted a Collaboration Kit challenge for the Vaadin community. The goal was to use the Collaboration Kit to design or build a web application with real-time user collaboration. In this blog post series, we take a closer look at the winning applications! Meet Roman Kovarík! He is ...
Announcing the Collaboration Kit Challenge winners
Today we are pleased to announce our Collaboration Kit Challenge winners! After careful consideration and evaluation, the jury selected the top three designs based on originality, effort, and design criteria. Each submission demonstrated high skill and creativity, making the selection process ...
Vaadin Add-on Directory can now list artifacts through Maven Central
Did you develop a cool library or component for Vaadin and publish it on Maven Central? That's great! This approach has several advantages over traditional vaadin.com/directory publishing. The good news is that listing those libraries in the Directory is now possible – with minimal effort. While ...
Highlights from our first Vaadin Docs hackathon
Our documentation team invited the rest of Vaadin to work on the docs during a hackathon-style “documentation week,” focusing on fixing issues and improving the quality of the Vaadin Docs repository. Now, we extend the invitation to all Vaadin community members! Technical documentation is at the ...
Vaadin Add-on Directory gets a new search interface
The new version of the Vaadin Add-on Directory is live! For those using Vaadin and add-ons daily, this is not anything new. It has been in public beta for over six months, and you have likely tried it out already. But if you are new to Vaadin, or haven’t really paid attention to the work of the ...
Vaadin Office Hours - Your live Vaadin FAQ
Have you heard of the Vaadin Office Hours? We have regularly organized live Q&A sessions for all Vaadin users over the past couple of months. These have turned out successful. So far, we have discussed over fifty different topics together with 148 community members. The Vaadin Office Hours is ...
Vaadin’s 2022 highlights and plans for the new year
As 2022 is winding down, let’s take a look back at some of the Vaadin highlights for the year, along with a quick sneak peek into our plans for 2023. Product news Vaadin 23 and a new release model In March, we released Vaadin 23 which also paved the way for our new, simplified release model where ...
Simon Martinelli on his experience with the Hilla framework
Simon Martinelli, the owner of 72Services, is a familiar name in our community and it's an honor to nominate him as a Vaadin Community Award winner for the second year running. Simon started his software development career 27 years ago as a Cobol developer on an IBM mainframe before switching to ...
The future of the Java ecosystem with Christian Knoop
Christian Knoop is one of the winners of the 2022 Vaadin Community Award. You might recognize him by his nickname "Knoobie" on our Discord channel. Knoobie is a Software Engineer from Germany working at DVZ M-V GmbH — the IT service provider for the state administration of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. ...