Even here in Turku, in the South West coast of Finland, the winter time is finally creeping in. A proper snowfall and sub-zero (°C) temperature days are hopefully just around the corner. Even if the weather is getting colder, the action around Vaadin Designer is only getting hotter. Impressive ...

As you have probably noticed, we recently introduced a new product called Vaadin Elements. Vaadin Elements builds on the Web Components standards and Google Polymer and will allow you to start using Vaadin components in any front end framework – like jQuery, Angular 2, React, Ember 2 or any plain ...

It’s been a busy autumn for all of us, but the awesome Vaadin community has found some time to squeeze out quite a lot of cool stuff. Let’s cover some of that. Challenge Many developers have been busy participating in Vaadin Challenge. In this competition, organized together with IBM, you can learn ...

The free certification week is on! NOTE: This blog post is outdated. Head over to the Learning Centre for our current selection of free training videos and certifications! This week you can become a certified Vaadin developer and join 500 others for free! A Vaadin certificate shows that you’ve ...

You certainly read and hear a lot about JS frameworks, foremost AngularJS, and as a Vaadin developer you might just wonder what to make of it: ignore it? (Would be a shame, there is great stuff out there.) Jump ship altogether? (Would be a shame, too - you’d loose Vaadin.) But fortunately, it’s not ...

The Liferay portal has always been a popular basis for Vaadin applications, so for this year’s Liferay Symposium we wanted to publish some fresh learning material - especially for new Vaadin developers. We created a full-stack example portlet, published a couple of smaller tricks for Liferay ...

For the last week of November, 23rd-29th 2015, you have the opportunity to become a Vaadin Certified developer with no cost at all. With a Vaadin certificate in your CV and on LinkedIn, you have proof that you have what it takes to be a Vaadin expert. The certification test is an online test that ...

After releasing Vaadin Designer 1.0, we decided that showing what it can do is more valuable than just talking about it. So we decided to build something substantial from scratch. No simple hello-worlds or one-liner examples but something real. We got inspired by a cool project we found at ...

The upcoming W3C Web Components standards promise to simplify large web application development through the use of custom HTML elements that encapsulate behavior and presentation in reusable components. While browser vendors are still working on implementing native support for Web Components ...