Category: Tutorials
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Push Notifications: A real-world example with electricity prices
Web Push Notifications, also known as the Web Push API, are a service provided by browser vendors that enable web apps to display operating system notifications to end users, even when the browser window or installed app is closed. While this feature has been available for desktop browsers and ...
Adding speech recognition to Vaadin apps
Our previous blog post added wake word detection for a Vaadin application using Picovoice. That is a robust in-browser approach to creating always-listening apps. You might want to use that for full speech recognition, but the draft standard web speech API also provides a way to voice-enable ...
Always-Listening Voice Commands for Vaadin web applications
Make your Vaadin web application more user-friendly and accessible with always-listening voice commands! With this quick 15-minute tutorial, you can integrate voice commands like "Alexa," "Hey Siri," and "Computer" into your application using the Picovoice Porcupine Wake Word Engine. Create a ...
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How to build a ChatGPT assistant for your documentation
ChatGPT can be a helpful tool for development and learning. But only if it knows about the technology you're using. The problem with ChatGPT and many other Large Language Models (LLMs) is that they are only trained on data up to a certain date. Tools like Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT plugins allow ...
Calling Java from JavaScript
Updated September 2024. In this step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to use Vaadin to call server-side Java code from client-side JavaScript code. All you need to follow this tutorial is a basic understanding of the Java Programming Language, the fundamentals of JavaScript, JDK 8 or later, and ...
How to configure cidaas for Vaadin SSO Kit
There are good reasons to use Identity & Access Managers (IAM) with Single Sign On (SSO) capabilities in your applications. Users typically want to authenticate once with the SSO solution rather than reauthenticate with individual applications repeatedly. SSO saves time and improves the overall ...
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How to Send Web Push Notifications from your Java App with Vaadin Flow
Updates on the subject: There are built-in helpers for Web Push API in Vaadin Flow available since version 24.2 Also check out Web Push Notifications: A real-world example with electricity prices Web push notifications are an effective way to keep users engaged with your web application even when ...
Toggle between light and dark theme in Vaadin Flow
Updated to Vaadin Flow 24 on 2023-02-23 A common question we get from Vaadin developers is how to switch on the dark theme variant dynamically. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to turn it on permanently, and how to dynamically apply the dark variant to the entire application or only parts of it. ...
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SessionScope vs. VaadinSessionScope - Which one should you use?
Dependency injection is magic, some say. It is magic, especially if you don’t understand what is happening behind the scenes. Vaadin developers have two almost identical scopes available for their beans: SessionScope (from Spring core) and VaadinSessionScope (from vaadin-spring). Picking the wrong ...