How enable Copilot in existing Spring Boot App?

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Hi,

i dont get Copilot enabled in my existing Spring Boot Application and i dont find any info how to do that. is there a trick? :smiley:

Got 25.0beta with Flow Copilot

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Die you press the Vaadin Icon at the bottom right in development mode?

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thats the problem, i dont see it

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maybe because i dont have theme in my application?

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Hard to tell without knowing your project. Did you check out a project from start.vaadin.com and compared it to your setup?

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yep the only difference is the theme folder i dont have. Then this may be the issue

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Another thing to look out for is that Copilot is only available in development mode. If you’re accidentally running your application in production mode, then Copilot will not be enabled.

This may happen if you have previously used the production profile from the Maven or Gradle build configuration but then just launching the main method from the IDE. This is because the last used Maven/Gradle mode is remembered. You can reset the state by launching once from Maven/Gradle without the production profile.

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vaadin.productionMode=false

in my (dev) application.properties did the trick

But changing flex directions etc is not possible,right?
Makes not much sense the copilot right now or do i miss something?

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If all you want is a flexbox editor, then Copilot might not (yet) be the right tool for you.

A non-exhaustive list of other things handled by Copilot includes:

  • Drag and drop editing of UI code
  • Theme editor
  • Figma import
  • Inline documentation viewer
  • Accessibility audit
  • Make UI code translatable
  • AI prompt to do arbitrary changes
  • Experimental UI test generator
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Hey Nico,

If you feel something important is missing, go to Issues · vaadin/copilot · GitHub and describe what you would like to see. We are adding stuff every day based on what issues come in and what we have in internal lists

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Is there a public roadmap?