Vaadin Blog
Introducing Custom Builds
There are several situations where organizations may choose to stay on an older version of Vaadin Flow. In some cases, you may not have the resources to allocate to the upgrade, especially if your team has to go through a heavy internal verification process. Or, alternatively, you may prefer to ...
Prepare your add-ons for Vaadin 24
Hello, add-on authors! This is the Vaadin 24 and Spring Boot 3 period. Although Vaadin 24 has only been in the pre-release stage for a few months, users are already anxious to try out Spring Boot 3, so we anticipate that Vaadin 24 pre-releases will see more usage than pre-releases often do. ...
Simon Martinelli on his experience with the Hilla framework
Simon Martinelli, the owner of 72Services, is a familiar name in our community and it's an honor to nominate him as a Vaadin Community Award winner for the second year running. Simon started his software development career 27 years ago as a Cobol developer on an IBM mainframe before switching to ...
The future of the Java ecosystem with Christian Knoop
Christian Knoop is one of the winners of the 2022 Vaadin Community Award. You might recognize him by his nickname "Knoobie" on our Discord channel. Knoobie is a Software Engineer from Germany working at DVZ M-V GmbH — the IT service provider for the state administration of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. ...
Josiah Haswell on building Aire UX - an open source components and utilities library for Vaadin
Meet Josiah Haswell! He is one of the 2022 winners of the Vaadin Community Award. With a background in compilers and distributed systems, Josiah is currently the CTO of Sunshower.io – a (now mostly open-source) low-code deployment and infrastructure cost and configuration optimization product. In ...
Ryan Pang on combining popular Javascript libraries with Vaadin
Ryan graduated from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2006 and started his Java journey. He has been working as a software developer for more than 16 years, providing software solutions for the government, insurance companies, fin-tech companies, and banks. Also, Ryan ...
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 ...
Hilla 1.3: a faster way to build React + Spring Boot apps
It's time to build a new web application. You've decided to use React with a Java back end, so you're good to go right? Not quite. There's still a lot of work to do to set up a new project, configure your build tools, find good UI components, and create APIs for communication between your front end ...