What is Vaadin?
It is the fastest way to build web applications in Java. It automates the communication between your server and the browser and gives you a high-level component API for all Vaadin components
Vaadin is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
Vaadin is an open source tool with 566 GitHub stars and 79 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Vaadin's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Vaadin?
Companies
21 companies reportedly use Vaadin in their tech stacks, including doubleSlash, Graphai, and Fraunhofer.
Developers
161 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Vaadin.
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Vaadin Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Vaadin?
Play
Play Framework makes it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications.
Spring MVC
A Java framework that follows the Model-View-Controller design pattern and provides an elegant solution to use MVC in spring framework by the help of DispatcherServlet.
AngularJS
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
JavaFX
It is a set of graphics and media packages that enables developers to design, create, test, debug, and deploy rich client applications that operate consistently across diverse platforms.
GWT
It is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. Its goal is to enable productive development of high-performance web applications without the developer having to be an expert in browser quirks, XMLHttpRequest, and JavaScript.
