Vaadin 18/19 without Spring Boot?

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The https://start.vaadin.com page creates a new Vaadin Flow project for versions 18 or 19 (pre-release). But the resulting project requires Spring Boot.

I do not want Spring. I do not want Spring Boot. Both solve problems I do not have. Both add complications I do not want.

Is there a way to work with Vaadin 18 or 19 without Spring, with just plain Servlet technology?

Is there any Maven archetype available for Vaadin 18 or 19 but free of Spring & Spring Boot? Formerly, we had the Maven archetype [vaadin-archetype-application]
(https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.vaadin/vaadin-archetype-application). But that archetype works only for up to Vaadin 16. Fails for Vaadin 17 & 18, as [discussed on Stack Overflow]
(https://stackoverflow.com/q/63496047/642706).

As a workaround, is there some way to take Spring Boot based project generated on https://start.vaadin.com and then rip out all the Spring related parts? Or is that not viable?

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[Marcus Hellberg]
(https://stackoverflow.com/users/5705554/marcus) of Vaadin Ltd [answered]
(https://stackoverflow.com/a/66130053/642706) this question on Stack Overflow:

The easiest way is to use [Skeleton Starter for Vaadin]
(https://github.com/vaadin/skeleton-starter-flow/tree/v18) as a base, using the v18 branch in this case.

Yes! That works.

I downloaded a zip from that GitHub page. Comes preconfigured for Vaadin Flow 18.0.5. Runs as-is using the embedded Jetty web server.

Also comes pre-configured with the Vaadin pre-releases repository address. So I could easily change the version to Vaadin Flow 19.0.0.alpha5.

![Screenshot of initial web app provided by Skeleton Starter for Vaadin]
(https://i.stack.imgur.com/lfaeE.jpg)