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We recently made a study for new people experiencing using Vaadin for the first time. When finding people who are doing Java web development, many are currently working on Angular applications. The study was very successful and many liked the “Vaadin way”, but we were left with an open question about how to use Vaadin if you are already using Angular?
Angular + Spring Boot projects seem to use a similar team split: backend exposes REST, frontend renders everything. However, many times the UI logic leaks to the backend and suddenly the backend team owns complex grid logic. Every sort order, filter combination, and lazy-loading variant becomes a REST contract negotiation. The frontend team re-implements pagination in TypeScript, or the backend team ships an API designed around the table widget.
Vaadin 25.1: Free Copilot and production-ready Signals
Vaadin 25.1 is the first feature release in the 25.x line, and it brings several important upgrades for Java developers. Vaadin Copilot is now free for everyone with a Vaadin.com account. Signals moves from preview to production-ready, giving you a reactive state management model in plain Java. And ...
How we built an accessible dashboard component
When you think about business applications, two UI patterns probably come to mind: CRUD (create, read, update and delete) views consisting of an item listing and a form for editing, and dashboards. While CRUDs are probably where users spend most of their time, the dashboard is usually what they see ...
Figma to UI Code: Vaadin Copilot vs. Figma MCP
Building applications for the web often involves an UI design phase. While Figma has been improving the designer to developer handoffs, the ideal would be that there’s no need for handoff at all. This article dives into two approaches in generating Vaadin UI code from a Figma design. As of today ...
Deploying a Vaadin Application to Clever Cloud
After the last blog post about VPS employment, I wanted to deploy a minimal Vaadin application without managing infrastructure. The goal is simply: take the Hello World app from start.vaadin.com and run it in production with HTTPS, logging, and zero server maintenance. I wanted Git-based ...
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Building the Perfect Docker Image for a Java app
I recently hosted a webinar with Catherine Edelveis from BellSoft on optimizing Docker images for Java applications. Catherine presented examples using a Spring Boot app with a Vaadin frontend, MongoDB, Kafka, and Spring Security — a setup that's closer to production reality than most demo apps. ...
CSS AG modernizes its ERP system with Vaadin Flow
CSS AG, a leading provider of ERP solutions, recognized the growing challenges of maintaining its Swing-based desktop application and sought a modern, browser-based alternative to meet evolving customer needs. With its flagship product, eGECKO, serving as a comprehensive ERP system, CSS AG needed a ...
Browserless UI Tests Join Vaadin’s Free Offering in 25.1
Starting with Vaadin 25.1, browserless tests (previously known as UI unit tests) will become part of Vaadin’s free offering, licensed under Apache 2.0 like the core framework. In the LLM-powered development era, fast and stable UI tests are essential for every application. We want every new Vaadin ...
10 Best Angular Alternatives in 2026: Top Frameworks to Replace Angular
The best Angular alternatives in 2026 are React, Vue.js, Svelte, SolidJS, Vaadin, Next.js, Qwik, Astro, Ember.js, and Blazor. Each offers distinct advantages over Angular — from React's flexible component model and Svelte's compile-time performance to Vaadin's full-stack Java platform that ...
New Penta, a life sciences distributor, reduced manual processing steps by 80% with Vaadin
New Penta, a company committed to digital transformation in life sciences and healthcare distribution, has redefined its order handling operations through the AOM (Advanced Order Management) project. Powered by Vaadin, AOM centralizes and automates the entire lifecycle of B2B and consumer ...