How come there is no download link on the site?
I was trying to find the latest release.
Eventually, by accident, came across
Hi,
typically you won’t download anything manually, you let your project management tool (most commonly Maven) take care of that. So if you’re starting a new project, create a new project from an archetype or using an IDE plugin. Once you build your project for the first time (e.g. mvn install with Maven), the tooling should download all the missing dependencies for your project.
Best regards,
Olli
Hi Olli,
What you say is true and for experienced Vaadin developers that may not be an issue.
But I am not so sure about people new to Vaadin.
Most vendors/products provide a download link and people instinctively look for that.
Even experienced developers might want to check out all the realeases, release notes etc.
A download link could be helpful.
Thanks
Satguru
https://vaadin.com/start
should be the best place to get started with a new test project. You can also check out the
tutorial in the Vaadin 8 docs
. A download link doesn’t really provide much value for a beginner, as that would just mean you download a bunch of .jar files and to do anything useful with them would require quite a lot of work of setting up a project.
-Olli
Hi Olli,
cannot really agree with you.
The tutorial you mentioned points to http://vaadin.com/download/ , which does not seem to exist.
I’m stuck there, because if I enter 10 as a version number, I do not get anything.
I first tried Netbeans, which did not work, now I switched to Eclipse.
Your promise was “You’ll have your first Vaadin app running in your IDE in a couple of minutes”.
Couple of days maybe?
You’re right; that seems to be a bug on the website - it works if you drop the last ‘/’ in the address. It should redirect you to https://vaadin.com/framework/releases
If you’re having problems, I’d recommend checking out the Gitter chat at https://gitter.im/vaadin/framework-8
-Olli
Also, if you’d rather start with Vaadin 10 instead of Vaadin 8, go to this page in the Docs: https://vaadin.com/docs/v10/flow/introduction/tutorial-get-started.html . Relevant Gitter chat for Vaadin 10 is here: https://gitter.im/vaadin/flow
no matter what version I choose, I allways get something like this:
Can’t resolve Archetype com.vaadin:vaadin-archetype-application:8.3.2
org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Could not resolve artifact com.vaadin:vaadin-archetype-application:pom:8.3.2
Hi,
I’m not sure what you’re doing before you get that error. Typically, when I start a new Vaadin 8 project, I run the following Maven command on the command line:
mvn archetype:generate \
-DarchetypeGroupId=com.vaadin \
-DarchetypeArtifactId=vaadin-archetype-application \
-DarchetypeVersion=8.3.2
If you’re getting the “Can’t resolve Archetype” error after that, there are a few possible reasons: either you’re behind a firewall or proxy that is not allowing you to access Maven Central directly, or you have some local configuration (possibly in your Maven installation or in your IDE) that preventing you from fetching the archetype. This StackOverflow issue might help you find out about them: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15506043/create-a-maven-project-in-eclipse-complains-could-not-resolve-archetype
-Olli
thanks, Olli, my problem was proxy-related.
Good to hear, maybe this info will be helpful for somebody in the future.