Tag: Vaadin-flow
Vaadin 24.4 opens the door to the land of React
One prominent theme in Vaadin 24.4 is integration with React in various forms. React has grown in popularity to the point where it's currently the most popular UI rendering library for web applications. This means that there's excellent availability of third-party components, learning resources, ...
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Building a Vaadin & Gemini AI Chatbot
This is the first part of our in-depth series on building a Vaadin & Gemini AI chatbot. In part two, we’ll add context management and UI customizations to enhance the chatbot. This blog post will detail how to build a web application that allows the user to input text prompts and receive a text ...
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Java Swing: Rising tech debt costs signal it's time to modernize
Tech debt from legacy frameworks like Java Swing poses significant issues with major consequences for societies, governments, and companies of all sizes. According to 2022 CISQ research, the technical debt that the US economy has developed would require $1.52 trillion to fix. As time goes on, this ...
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Think twice before overriding Object.equals()
Overriding the Object.equals(Object) method, and its “companion” Object.hashCode(), provides your classes with some superpowers, but they are also one of the most common sources of problems that I see new and sometimes also more experienced Java and Vaadin developers struggling with. Some ...
Four ways to display geospatial features in Vaadin Flow UIs
Java is a commonly used platform to edit geospatial data. There is almost an overload of various tools and libraries available. There are a number of UI widgets for Vaadin that allow you to plot and even edit geospatial information. The unique architecture of Vaadin Flow also allows you to build ...
Build modern web apps 100% in Kotlin
Build modern web apps in 100% Java is the tagline often used for Vaadin Flow. By changing the language, this could actually apply to Kotlin as well, known for its Kotlin-to-JavaScript transpilation. Kotlin code can be transpiled to JavaScript for execution in the browser, so one could argue that no ...
Building responsive websites with Java and Vaadin Flow
Responsive web design is an approach to building web applications that dynamically change the size or orientation of the visible elements for ideal viewing on viewports of various sizes. At various breakpoints (developer-defined numerical values of viewpoint dimensions), one may notice menus ...
Vaadin Flow 24.2: Enhanced performance, new UI components, AppSec Kit, and more!
We're excited to announce the release of Vaadin 24.2, our latest iteration, packed with remarkable improvements focused on boosting productivity, enhancing UI components, improving security, and expanding our support for modern web technologies. Here's what you can expect in this update: Faster ...
Vaadin Flow 24.1: Builds, grids, theming, and prototypes all get faster
Last updated 2025 Introducing V24.1 Today we are releasing Vaadin Flow 24.1, packed with new features designed to make web application development even faster and easier. In this release, we are excited to introduce two new low-code to pro-code tools, Visual View Builder and Visual Theme Editor. ...
