Vaadin Blog
Meet the 2022 Vaadin Community Award winners!
In 2021, we launched the Vaadin Community Award (VCA) program to recognize our community members who have demonstrated an exceptional track record of community participation. The support of our community is what drives us forward as an open-source platform. We love to see what our community members ...
Vaadin 23.3: Running Vaadin Flow apps in Kubernetes and cloud just got easier, plus three new UI components
We’re happy to announce a new release, Vaadin 23.3, that makes it easier to deploy and run stateful Vaadin Flow applications in Kubernetes and cloud environments. Two new Acceleration Kits for Kubernetes and Azure Cloud enable horizontal scalability, high availability/failover, non-disruptive ...
Custom component unit and integration testing tips
How to make your custom component a robust building block of your UI. In this tutorial, I will share some more ideas in the domain of creating custom components. My previous blog post was about creating a custom component with Lit, this is the next chapter of the story. This time we will learn some ...
Building a React + Java app just got faster with Hilla 1.3
It’s been just over half a year since we introduced Hilla: A new open-source framework from Vaadin that helps you build reactive Java-based business applications faster. Hilla is designed for teams that want to combine a TypeScript frontend with a Spring Boot Java backend. Today, we are excited to ...
Vaadin 24 pre-release available for Spring Boot 3.0
With Spring Boot 3.0 now released, Vaadin Flow users may wonder about compatibility. Don’t worry! Vaadin 24 will be compatible with Spring Boot 3.0 and the pre-release is already available if you’re eager to be on the latest Spring Boot version. According to Spring, free support for Spring Boot 2.7 ...
PWAs for Business Applications: What Enterprise Dev Teams Need to Know
The benefits of Progressive Web Applications (PWA) for consumer apps and especially e-commerce apps are often reported. But beyond conversion, organic traffic, and daily active users, there are real benefits for business and enterprise applications – without additional effort, when using the right ...
Vaadin wins InfoWorld Bossie Award
The annual IDG’s InfoWorld Bossie Awards recognize the best business-oriented open source software products of the year. On October 17th, Vaadin had the honor of being recognized as one of the best open source software of 2022. InfoWorld’s columnist Andrew C. Oliver shared his view on why Vaadin ...
Observe your Flow applications
Observability (or o11y) is the ability to answer questions about your application and its infrastructure, no matter how complex. Our new Observability Kit assists developers in implementing it for Flow-based applications in order to obtain traceable, actionable information about their applications ...
The state of Java in the enterprise survey
Take the survey → According to the PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index, in November 2022, Java is the second most popular language in the world. This ranking is determined by analyzing requests for programming language tutorials on Google. In addition, Java also holds its position among ...