Top slider components using Material Design

Web Components Wednesday (WCW) blog series is created for two purposes: introducing easy-to-use components and educating people on the concept of Web Components. All the WCW blogs can be found here. The slider is one of the most used components in any website or web app. We can use it for choosing ...

Vaadin Directory now welcomes custom GitHub badges

Good news for all component authors! Vaadin Directory now supports custom badges which you can use in your GitHub repository. It’s cool, it’s concise and most of all, it shows meaningful information to your users about your component. Like most GitHub badges, you showcase them by writing some lines ...

Microservices: Health monitoring

In previous articles of this series, we discussed high availability and fault tolerance capabilities to make services resilient to failures in external services. In this article, we’ll add “health endpoints” and implement a dashboard to visually monitor service status. Why do we need this? ...

Best color picker component? L2t-paper-color vs paper-swatch-picker vs color-picker

Web Components Wednesday (WCW) blog series is created for two purposes: introducing easy-to-use components and educating people on the concept of Web Components. All the WCW blogs can be found here. Colors are one of the most fundamental human forms of expression. They appear everywhere, from our ...

Using Generics for Constructors

Intro This is the first article in a series on Core Java. The goal will be to look at functional and reactive aspects. Everything is based on the JDK itself, so that the examples can be tried out directly. All articles of this series are marked with the tag Core Java. At the end of each article you ...

What happened to Vaadin Elements?

One of the changes introduced with the Vaadin 10 beta release is that there is no longer a separate product called Vaadin Elements. We now call them Vaadin components. You can find them at vaadin.com/components. Backstory: why there were Elements in the first place The development of our set of Web ...

Microservices: High availability

One of the objectives of microservices is to allow independent deployment and scaling of applications. We already learned how to create a UI composition in the previous article of this series. In this article, we’ll learn how to replicate stateful web applications to help supporting high ...

Introduction to good-map, a simplified version of google-map

Web Components Wednesday (WCW) blog series is created for two purposes: introducing easy-to-use components and educating people on the concept of Web Components. All the WCW blogs can be found here. From a physical object to a digital one, a map has always been one of the most essential equipments ...

10 reasons to use Vaadin 10

Vaadin 10 is out and it changes everything! Well, maybe not everything. But it is the biggest update in Vaadin's history. To celebrate, we wanted to highlight some of the features we're most excited about ourselves. Learn more about how to build Java web applications in Vaadin 10 with our training ...