We did some digging around into our blog posts and tutorials from the past year to brainstorm on fresh new ideas for 2022. In this post, we share some of our community’s 2021 favorites on the Vaadin blog, just in case you missed one or two of these posts and helpful tutorials. Happy coding! 1. ...

JWT (JSON Web Token) is a popular way to handle authentication in stateless, browser-centric web UIs. Vaadin Flow runs its UI state and logic in the server memory – by design. Without that, Flow users couldn’t have the pure Java developer experience and simplicity they love. At first glance, it ...

We are changing our release model so the version numbers give a better indication of what type of changes the release contains. We are also putting more effort into helping with upgrading, so everybody can stay on the latest version instead of an old one. We have been listening to your concerns ...

Starting Java web applications is not an instantaneous process. It is not rare to see tens of seconds for some applications to boot. Although you can get an almost instant startup time if you leave out Hibernate and run Quarkus on GraalVM, that’s not the reality we live in. During development, ...

We are renaming Vaadin Fusion to Hilla and giving it its own web site. In this post, I'll explain why we are making the change and what to expect. We originally introduced the Vaadin Fusion framework as a part of Vaadin 15. Although the Fusion and Flow frameworks are interoperable, Fusion has ...

Application modernization is a key element in an enterprise’s overall digital transformation strategy. A study by IBM found that modernizing existing applications and infrastructure is a top digital transformation goal for over 40% of IT decision makers. We sat down with our Migrations Lead, Ben ...

2021 has been a busy year here at Vaadin! Before we quiet down for the upcoming holiday season, we wanted to take a moment to rewind and review some of the Vaadin highlights in our annual year-in-review roundup. Releases, releases, releases The product team's release cadence was packed. We ...

Our holiday gift for the community As the Vaadin tradition goes, at the end of each year we want to give back to you to say thank you. Thank you for your support and for being active community members, whether it is by sharing your Vaadin projects with us, helping out other developers on the Vaadin ...

Quarkus is an increasingly popular Kubernetes-native Java framework. Vaadin Flow users previously had to rely on community add-ons for Quarkus support, but now, with the release of Vaadin 22, the support is official. This change means you can rely on continuous support when building Quarkus apps ...