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Vaadin Blog

Vaadin Flow 24.2: Enhanced performance, new UI components, AppSec Kit, and more!
We're excited to announce the release of Vaadin 24.2, our latest iteration, packed with remarkable improvements focused on boosting productivity, enhancing UI components, improving security, and expanding our support for modern web technologies. Here's what you can expect in this update: Faster ...

Hilla 2.3 introduces streamlined grid creation and security helpers
Hilla 2.3 is out! This release includes a new AutoGrid component and authentication helpers for React. 🪄 AutoGrid: a fully-featured grid in one line of code AutoGrid allows you to configure a Grid component to automatically fetch data from the backend. It supports pagination, sorting, and ...

You might not need the database
Bashing ORM tools, which in the JVM bubble is most likely Hibernate, is probably the most common hobby among developers. I agree ORM is often an obsolete piece in our technology stacks, but I claim that in most cases, it ought to be the relational database itself that should be burnt with fire. ...

App Development Simplified with Hilla Components
In the area of application development, time and efficiency are of the essence. As developers, we are constantly on the lookout for tools that can streamline our workflow while enhancing the end user experience. This is the exact use case of Hilla, a robust framework that ties the best of Java on ...

Using Third-Party React Components in Hilla
Hilla supports using any third-party React component library in your apps. If you want to, you can use Material UI, React Bootstrap, Ant Design or any other React component library. In this tutorial, we'll use the React Colorful color picker as an example. Creating a Hilla App First, you'll need a ...

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Hexagonal Architecture in Java
Welcome to the third installment of our Domain-Driven Design (DDD) series, updated for 2024. In Part 1, we explored Strategic Domain-Driven Design, and in Part 2, we focused on Tactical DDD. Now, we’ll show you how to transform a domain model into fully functional software by applying the ...

NPR migrated from Vaadin 8 to 14 for enhanced security, faster development, and better UX
By leveraging Vaadin's expertise and tools, NPR successfully migrated ContentDepot from Vaadin 8 to Vaadin 14, modernizing their application and benefiting from the latest features and improvements the Vaadin 14 framework offers. National Public Radio (NPR), a renowned nonprofit media organization, ...

Tutorial: Integrating React Query with Hilla for Type-Safe Backend Services
In this hands-on tutorial, we will delve into using React Query with Hilla to connect to Spring Boot through type-safe backend services. We will be creating a simple Hilla application that integrates React Query on the frontend. As we walk through the process, you'll gain an understanding of how to ...

Why you don't need REST endpoint classes with Hilla
We are introducing some new terminology with Hilla 2.2. We have renamed the server-side logic that you call from the browser to "browser-callable services" instead of "endpoints." We have realized that the endpoint terminology leads us to think about the network communication layer in an overly ...