Spring Boot VS Vaadin

Compare Spring Boot vs Vaadin and see what are their differences.

Vaadin

Vaadin 6, 7, 8 is a Java framework for modern Java web applications. (by vaadin)
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Spring Boot Vaadin
166 41
72,230 1,766
1.2% 0.3%
10.0 5.5
7 days ago about 1 month ago
Java Java
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Spring Boot

Posts with mentions or reviews of Spring Boot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-04.
  • Walmart is migrating the remaining F# code into Java
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2024
    - Usually manually wired and configured vs the spring boot "starter" pattern of having libraries that automatically do some of the manual setup work for you: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/main/spr...

    I wish more client library sets had the feature-matrix that the pulsar one does, because in practice most end up being the same: Java supports everything because it's either built in the same codebase or is the most used client and gets the most support, while the dotnet client codebase has many feature-requests or performance improvement issues, often leading to a "third-party client" being created.

  • AI commented the entire Spring Boot codebase
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Feb 2024
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Feb 2024
  • Spring Boot 3 And Java 17 Migration Guide
    2 projects | dev.to | 16 Dec 2023
    If you’re currently running with an earlier version of Spring Boot, I recommend that you upgrade to Spring Boot 2.7 before migrating to Spring Boot 3.0. It minimizes compatibility issues as much as possible.
  • Netflix Uses Java
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2023
    It's weird that some people including you directly attack my competence. As a power user you should have plenty of experience getting something to work that is not properly document, does not work how the documentation promised it to, or has weird problems on top of it. Look at idiotic things like this:

    https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/33044

    Take any similar issue and you'll see a bunch of people who try to find a solution for them because they just aren't repeatable at all. The underlying issue is the auto configuration doing things you can't follow quite properly. It's like it wasn't mean to be understood. Issues like the one I linked above also show me that the spring dev crowd also doesn't understand the ecosystem anymore. The problem is complexity and automagic.

  • What's New in Spring Framework 6.1
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2023
    An interested reader can decide for themselves:

    https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/tree/main/spr...

    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2023
    > Spring has gotten so bloated.

    I'd call Spring feature-rich than bloated. You can always shed weight that you don't want to carry.

    > Plus there's multiple ways of doing the same thing. e.g. JPA, spring-data.

    That's because there are different ways to solve a problem. Someone may want an ORM-based approach to connect to the database; they can choose spring-data-jpa. Someone may want to use JDBC with a light abstraction on top of it; they can choose spring-data-jdbc. It's all about choices and right tradeoffs and Spring offers plenty of them.

    > they don't provide easy upgrade paths between majors versions

    That's not my experience. I've been happily upgrading 2.x.x versions and plan to upgrade to 3.2.x when it is ready. But depending on the codebase, I admit it can be painful. Projects like OpenRewrite[1] might help here.

    > and they stop updating vulnerabilities on older major versions.

    This is not news. They want you to pay for extended support if you need it.

    > No docs on migration.

    They do maintain migration docs on GitHub wiki which are a lot more detailed than their blog posts on migration. Here's the latest one to upgrade from Spring Boot 2 to 3: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/wiki/Spring-B...

    [1]: https://github.com/openrewrite/rewrite

  • Secure Java URL encoding and decoding
    3 projects | dev.to | 15 Aug 2023
    Explicitly decoding URL query parameters occurs less often because many frameworks, including Spring Boot, handle decoding automatically.
  • SpringBoot Serverless REST API - ApiGateway+Lambda, deployed using AWS SAM
    8 projects | dev.to | 12 Aug 2023
    https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/ https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/sam/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ https://spring.io/projects/spring-boot https://start.spring.io
  • Managing AI-powered Java App With API Management
    6 projects | dev.to | 23 Jun 2023
    In this article, we will explore how to integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT APIs with a Spring Boot application and manage the APIs using Apache APISIX, an open-source API gateway. This integration will allow us to leverage the power of ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art language model developed by OpenAI, in our Spring Boot application, while APISIX will provide a robust, scalable, and secure way to manage the APIs.

Vaadin

Posts with mentions or reviews of Vaadin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-30.
  • Ask HN: Why is web development such a daunting task?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2023
  • A front-end programming language that don't need html/css, do you know one ?
    2 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 3 Apr 2023
    But there are frameworks like GWT or Vaadin for Java, but none of them really took off afaik, I've never seen a job posting with either of these.
  • Always-Listening Voice Commands for Vaadin web applications
    2 projects | dev.to | 28 Mar 2023
    This small tutorial takes 15 minutes from the start to a working demo. We use Picovoice Porcupine Wake Word Engine to enable a Vaadin-based Java web application.
  • The Future (and the Past) of the Web Is Server Side Rendering
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2023
    > Slightly off topic, but I found JSF the most productive out of any framework.

    In my experience, it has been a horrible technology (even when combined with PrimeFaces) for complex functionality.

    When you have a page that has a bunch of tabs, which have tables with custom action buttons, row editing, row expansion, as well as composite components, modal dialogs with other tables inside of those, various dropdowns or autocomplete components and so on, it will break in new ways all the time.

    Sometimes the wrong row will be selected, even if you give every element a unique ID, sometimes updating a single table row after AJAX will be nigh impossible, other times the back end methods will be called with the wrong parameters, sometimes your composite components will act in weird ways (such as using the button to close a modal dialog doing nothing).

    When used on something simple, it's an okay choice, but enterprise codebases that have been developed for years (not even a decade) across multiple versions will rot faster than just having a RESTful API and some separate SPA (that can be thrown out and rewritten altogether, if need be).

    Another option in the space is Vaadin which feels okay, but has its own problems: https://vaadin.com/

    Of course, my experiences are subjective and my own.

  • Happy path: Publishing a Web Component to Vaadin Add-on Directory
    2 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2023
    Did you find an excellent custom element that would make sense in your Vaadin Java web application? Maybe that is a web component that you previously published yourself in npmjs.com?
  • Are there any recommended libraries to make Spring Boot development even faster / easier?
    4 projects | /r/learnjava | 30 Dec 2022
    What you maybe asking for is something like vaadin or jhipster which marries the front with the backend. (I don't like them tbh but it worth mentioning)
  • LiveView in Clojure ?
    4 projects | /r/Clojure | 7 Dec 2022
  • free-for.dev
    67 projects | dev.to | 8 Nov 2022
    Vaadin — Build scalable UIs in Java or TypeScript, and use the integrated tooling, components and design system to iterate faster, design better and simplify the development process. Unlimited Projects with 5 years free maintenance.
  • Can I use Java to build a website?
    5 projects | /r/java | 2 Nov 2022
    You can use Java for Backend and Frontend. A relative new kid on the block for Frontend is Qute. The general keyword you are searching for is Java Templating Engine. Specific examples would be Thymeleaf or FreeMarker. There are some framework, which offer a lot more than templating like Vaadin or Wicket. Some are just specifications like Jakarta Faces with some of their implementations MyFaces or Mojarra.
  • Aire-UX Testing Framework Released to Maven Central!
    3 projects | /r/opensource | 10 Oct 2022
    This single-process, browserless testing framework allows you to inject live Vaadin or Sunshower.io widgets directly into your test-cases via CSS L4 selectors, navigate around your application to test workflows, and generally test UI interactions end-to-end quickly and safely. Comprehensive #springframework support is included via the Spring extension

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Spring Boot and Vaadin you can also consider the following projects:

helidon - Java libraries for writing microservices

PrimeFaces - Ultimate Component Suite for JavaServer Faces

Play - The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.

javalin - A simple and modern Java and Kotlin web framework [Moved to: https://github.com/javalin/javalin]

Quarkus - Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.

Jooby - The modular web framework for Java and Kotlin

ZK - ZK is a highly productive Java framework for building amazing enterprise web and mobile applications

Apache Wicket - Apache Wicket - Component-based Java web framework

Ratpack - Lean & powerful HTTP apps

Grails - The Grails Web Application Framework