My App

This project can be used as a starting point to create your own Vaadin application with Spring Boot. It contains all the necessary configuration and some placeholder files to get you started.

Running the application

Open the project in an IDE. You can download the IntelliJ community edition if you do not have a suitable IDE already. Once opened in the IDE, locate the Application class and run the main method using "Debug".

For more information on installing in various IDEs, see how to import Vaadin projects to different IDEs.

If you install the Vaadin plugin for IntelliJ, you should instead launch the Application class using "Debug using HotswapAgent" to see updates in the Java code immediately reflected in the browser.

Deploying to Production

The project is a standard Maven project. To create a production build, call

./mvnw clean package -Pproduction

If you have Maven globally installed, you can replace ./mvnw with mvn.

This will build a JAR file with all the dependencies and front-end resources,ready to be run. The file can be found in the target folder after the build completes. You then launch the application using

java -jar target/my-app-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

Project structure

• MainLayout.java in src/main/java contains the navigation setup (i.e., the side/top bar and the main menu). This setup uses App Layout.
• views package in src/main/java contains the server-side Java views of your application.
• views folder in src/main/frontend contains the client-side JavaScript views of your application.
• themes folder in src/main/frontend contains the custom CSS styles.

Useful links

• Read the documentation at vaadin.com/docs.
• Follow the tutorial at vaadin.com/docs/latest/tutorial/overview.
• Create new projects at start.vaadin.com.
• Search UI components and their usage examples at vaadin.com/docs/latest/components.
• View use case applications that demonstrate Vaadin capabilities at vaadin.com/examples-and-demos.
• Build any UI without custom CSS by discovering Vaadin's set of CSS utility classes.
• Find a collection of solutions to common use cases at cookbook.vaadin.com.
• Find add-ons at vaadin.com/directory.
• Ask questions on Stack Overflow or join our Forum.
• Report issues, create pull requests in GitHub.