Non commercial licence

Flow
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Hi there,
I’m completely new to Vaadin (discovering). The Vaadin Designer for IntelliJ is the main reason why I’m looking at Vaadin. I was thinking of starting to learn Vaadin with it but the licence fee is insane. $1668/year :flushed: Now I’m not planning on using Vaadin for any commercial purposes, I don’t have a business, I’m just a curious to learn a new technology and try to build PoC to see if I like or not. 14 days of trail is like nothing for me (I only have a few hours on some weekends). So I was wondering if there’s any kind of non commercial licence that exist, or some kind of “discovery/learning” licence? How do people in my situation do it? I mean unless you’re are an experienced Vaadin developer with a solid business plan, I don’t see how one can afford such a fee, especially if it’s only for one year! :/
Thanks for your help!

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If you are a student, you can get access to the commercial components for free. Otherwise, if you don’t have a business, I would (personally) question the usage of commercial components / features because they are targeted at commercial users who can afford them and where time is money. You can archive anything without them, just coding more yourself - especially the visual designer. If you are used to create e.g. swing or something else, you can easily build Vaadin Flow based UI completely in Java within minutes.

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Thank you for your answer. I’m not actually interested in the commercial components, I just want to use the visual designer. My understanding is that you need the pro licence for this. Am I correct ? (my student years are long gone ;))

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You are correct. I don’t think there is a “only visual designer for private projects”, but you can probably shoot an email at sales@vaadin.com and see how it goes

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alright, that’s always worth the shot. Thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

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That’s an alternative ( I don’t know if it’s working well) GitHub - mjvesa/gui-builder: A free and open source visual editor for Vaadin Flow applications

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I think the evaluation license is all there is. The price is rather high indeed as it bundles a lot of commercial add-ons.

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If you are interested in visual design of web apps, (not specifically for IntelliJ), you could also check out RapidClipse: RapidClipse 🚀 The Eclipse Distribution for Rapid Cross-Platform-Development with Java

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wow I didn’t know about this one, looks nice