Vaadin Blog
There is much more to Vaadin Copilot than AI, and in this article, we’ll examine one feature that can be particularly useful when editing UIs: drag and drop. Whether you're working with Java or React views, Vaadin Copilot makes UI editing faster and more intuitive.
Top 5 Vaadin YouTube videos in 2024
2024 was another exciting year for the Vaadin platform! We released some useful new features and celebrated numerous milestones in our stable version of Vaadin 24. The best part is many of these highlights were captured on the Vaadin YouTube channel. If you haven’t had a chance to check them out ...
Extracting structured data from images using AI in Java
As AI models have become better at handling multimodal input like images, new opportunities have opened up for us when building business applications. In this blog post, I'll examine how we can use Open AI and Spring AI to extract information from an image into a Java record that we can use in our ...
Adding JSON-LD and Open Graph to Vaadin apps for link previews
Links are crucial for user experience and discoverability, even in apps behind login screens. This tutorial shows how to use JSON-LD and Open Graph metadata to create better link previews, improve branding, and boost engagement. So, why does linking even matter? First, we must accept that Vaadin ...
The Snow Reindeer release: What’s new in Vaadin 24.6
As announced in Joonas Lehtinen’s product keynote at Vaadin Create, with Vaadin 24.6, we’ve taken a step back from introducing new features to focus on something equally important: refining the foundation. This “Snow Reindeer” release is dedicated to enhancing stability, boosting performance, and ...
Theming Vaadin applications: a practical guide
The appearance of a web application plays a key role in the user experience and how your Vaadin application will be accepted in your Usergroup. With Vaadin's powerful theming system and style options, you can customize your application's design to meet the requirements of corporate brandings and ...
The Vaadin Way: A vision for building business web apps in Java
We understand that building business applications is both an art and a science. Our platform is designed to empower developers to craft modern, high-quality applications in Java. However, with versatility comes the challenge of figuring out the best way to leverage it—some approaches lead to better ...
Building a local file manager with Vaadin Flow
Handling file uploads and managing stored files is a common requirement in web applications. However, creating a robust and user-friendly interface can be challenging. This post demonstrates how to build a file management application using Vaadin Flow, showcasing how Vaadin's components, data ...
Displaying streaming markdown in Java and React UIs with Spring AI
Tools like Spring AI make it easy to call LLMs from Java. However, interacting with LLMs has created a new challenge when building UIs: How do we stream the generated Markdown content to the UI and render it efficiently? In this blog post, I'll show you how you can display live-updating markdown ...
The fear of classes is real—Here’s how to beat it in Java
“Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language” - Wikipedia. I get to see and read a lot of Java code at work. Sometimes, I even get to write some.🥳 Recently, I have noticed a tendency that we Java developers are, for some (wrong?) reason, afraid of classes. A class is a ...
