Building Applications the Vaadin Way

Vaadin is a powerful tool for building real-world business applications. However, as with many versatile tools, it can be used in several different ways and some of these lead to better outcomes than others.

Big business applications often have small beginnings. You can determine things as you go along, but it might be easier if someone showed you how to use new tools from the start. In this section of the documentation, you’ll learn the Vaadin Way of building business applications.

The Vaadin Way is not a tutorial. Rather, it is an opinionated and holistic look at building modern business applications with Vaadin. It’s not limited to the user interface: it also covers other aspects, like business logic, persistence, integration with external systems, and even deployment. It scales progressively from a demo to a personal project, to serving even the most demanding enterprise needs.

The Vaadin Way isn’t the only way to build Vaadin applications. Experienced developers and maintainers of existing applications can continue using Vaadin in their preferred way, or choose the parts of the Vaadin Way that works for them.