New products coming out soon

In Pro Tools, we always try to look on what our community does and figure out what some of the time consuming parts are. Our mantra is 'productivity' – build solutions that save the developers' time and thus save money for the company. Our two following projects are very much like that and I'd like ...

Progressive web apps in Java

Update 29-June-2018: There are now more in depth resources about PWA, and example of integrating PWA with Vaadin Flow. What is the big deal about Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) and why are they trending nowadays? Here is one explanation by Google: “It [PWA] loads quickly, even on flaky ...

Read the Free Web Platform Report 2017 Today

NOTE: This blog post is outdated and the report is no longer available. After months pouring over and analyzing the data, we are proud to announce the release of the Web Platform Report 2017. This report is the result of a collaboration between teams at Vaadin, Polymer, and Skate. Together we ran a ...

Simplifying Performance with Web Components

Why the solution to slow web apps isn’t a more complex set of tools A while back I was working on an Angular app. What struck me was that Angular is not really only a framework, rather it’s an entire platform of its own built on top the Web platform. The reasoning behind this is to give developers ...

Vaadin Pro Tools for Vaadin 8

New major versions of Vaadin Pro Tools are out: Vaadin Charts 4.0, Vaadin Spreadsheet 2.0, Vaadin Designer 2.0, and Vaadin TestBench 5.0 are now supporting Vaadin Framework 8. What’s new The biggest change and at the same time the biggest improvement in the new Pro Tools is that the new major ...

TouchKit is dead, long live TouchKit

Vaadin TouchKit is released today under Apache 2.0 license - the same permissive free software license as the core framework has. At the same time, we stop developing the product and we will not release any new features for it. We continue to support the product through our commercial support ...

Community Spotlight - February 2017

For this month’s community spotlight, I interviewed Normand Hénault. Normand is the CEO of a company developing an interesting project called Nuuzee, a service that allows users to geographically explore events around them. The web application is available in 93 languages with the translations ...

New Vaadin Online Trainings are here

We are proud to present over 30 new Vaadin Online Training Courses. Your feedback has encouraged us to change and restructure our online training offering. Starting immediately, you’ll be able to sign up for the new courses. Over 30 new topics We have created over 30 new courses with more precise ...

Vaadin Framework 8 is out!

The long wait is over and I’m privileged to announce that Vaadin Framework 8.0.0 is released today! Version 7 was released over four years ago. Even though there have been 7 minor releases since the initial release, that have added countless of new major features, major releases are always more ...