Vaadin is fast expanding its horizons. By the next LTS (estimated for 2021), the platform is looking to fully support two unique development models: Java-only server-side development (the current primary Vaadin model). TypeScript-based client-side UI development with seamless access to Java on the ...

I had the chance to attend Jfokus 2020 with my colleagues Matti Tahvonen and Sami Ekblad. Jfokus is Sweden's largest software developer conference and an "all-about-Java" event. There were over 2000 visitors and dozens of international speakers and exhibitors. The event Most of the talks had a ...

Gradle users have traditionally been "second-class citizens" as Vaadin users. We received many requests to provide official Gradle support in our most recent community survey. The Gradle build plugin was a community effort (even though it was sponsored by Vaadin), and Vaadin project creation on our ...

Vaadin has been on a two-decade long quest to provide developers with the cutting-edge tools and the DX they need to build UX-focused web applications that users love. Today, the Vaadin platform is a leading option for mission-critical enterprise Java web-application development. Our platform is ...

Abstractions are important, but mismatched abstractions can be problematic. One particular mismatch that I encounter every now and then is a lot more than problematic: it can be outright dangerous. This is the mismatch between URL-based filtering in various security frameworks and view-based ...

Vaadin was part of GitHub’s Holiday Coding Challenge and we received four magnificent applications from our community. Thank you for these. Choosing the winner was a difficult task, but Diego Cortés’ application did stand out from the crowd. Diego’s winning web application allows users to report ...

Today, we launch a new in-depth tutorial series about building web apps with Spring Boot and Vaadin. The content was inspired by frequently-asked questions from our community, like: how do you connect a Vaadin app to a database, or how do you create reusable components? The free tutorial series ...

There are two key concepts that you must understand when you start with Spring or JakartaEE/CDI–inversion of control and dependency injection. In brief, inversion of control means letting a framework take control of the execution flow of your program to do things like create instances of your ...

Editor's note: The Designs to Layouts Figma plugin is Matti's personal project, not an official Vaadin tool. Visual design is a critical aspect of a modern software project that permeates the entire process. Unfortunately, there is a tool mismatch: designers tend to use tools such as Sketch or, ...