Getting security right is critical when building web apps. The upside of building a web app is that people can use it wherever they are, on any device. But you need to ensure that only the right people are able to access it, and that they have access to only the features you intended. In this ...

The application with different theme variants Whether for multi-tenancy or user preference, the need to dynamically change the theming of an application is a common business application need. In this post, we show how it’s done using CSS custom properties and HTML attributes. Vaadin 14.6 brought an ...

Since last October, we have released weekly technical videos on topics about Vaadin Flow and Vaadin Fusion. If you are a visual learner, this series is for you!

Load testing allows you to simulate multiple users interacting with your application. This allows you to experiment with a real-world load on your application and understand its behavior under different levels of stress. In this article, I'll show you, step by step, how to run load tests on a ...

In this article, I share my experience in business application modernization and some of the key findings on migrating a complex Oracle Forms application to a modern Java-based web application implemented in Java with Vaadin. This article is based on my talk at DawsCon 2021: From low-code to ...

Gatling is a free, open-source performance testing tool. It was first released 2012 and has since gained in popularity. In addition to its free tools, Gatling offers a wide range of (commercial) professional services. Gatling is mainly implemented with the Scala programming language (as opposed to ...

This tutorial shows how you build and submit your progressive web application (PWA) to the Google Play Store. We use the PWA from our Modern Web App tutorial series as an example and wrap it as a Trusted Web Activity (TWA) using the Bubblewrap CLI by Google Chrome Labs. You can find more details ...

JMeter is one of the most popular performance testing tools. First released at the end of 1998, JMeter became the default choice for many companies needing to measure the performance of their software. In 2016, it was estimated that half of all companies performing load tests used JMeter. It is ...

In this post, you get to know the Vaadin internals that are relevant from a load-testing perspective. It is necessary to delve into these details, because they explain why you cannot simply replay a previously-recorded scenario when load testing a Vaadin app. You also need to deal with unique ...