zk VS Vaadin

Compare zk vs Vaadin and see what are their differences.

zk

A plain text note-taking assistant (by zk-org)

Vaadin

Vaadin 6, 7, 8 is a Java framework for modern Java web applications. (by vaadin)
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zk Vaadin
34 41
1,328 1,766
4.1% 0.3%
7.2 5.5
6 days ago about 1 month ago
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zk

Posts with mentions or reviews of zk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-25.
  • On Keeping a Logbook (2010)
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2023
    I use org-mode with the journal plugin, but I'm soon going to switch to zk[0]. My technique is called interstitional journaling[1], and I just keep track of my location (I travel a lot) and the date, which gets generated by org. You can set up an interstitional journal in anything though, Logseq[2] supports it out of the box.

    [0] (https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk)

  • What are your cross-platform note-taking solutions with neovim? I am so lost!
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 7 Jul 2023
    Personally, I'm using zk for now. What's nice about is that it aims to be a common-denominator between all the popular zettelkasten markdown formats out there. So the notes you write with it will be forward-compatible with many other note-taking apps like Obsidian.
  • Notetaking when solving issues and learning stuff
    8 projects | /r/archlinux | 9 Jun 2023
    If you want to go full terminal workspace - you could use Zk (https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk) + editor of your choice. It is just markdown under the hood, but it comes with quite a few good features that majority of the tools have now (tags, backlinks, front matter, templates, etc). I wrote a post about my setup literally yesterday (it was a bit more editor oriented though) https://www.reddit.com/r/HelixEditor/comments/144x6r3/escape_hatch_xd/
  • Escape hatch xD
    3 projects | /r/HelixEditor | 8 Jun 2023
    I selected Helix as it is phenomenally fast, I love out of the box feature set, key bindings are intuitive and it looks sick :) To manage my notes I found ZK - very cool CLI with extensibility in mind.
  • obsidian alternative? zettelkasten
    5 projects | /r/suckless | 5 May 2023
    I use https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk
  • Looking for guidance on simplifying my note-taking setup into the terminal
    11 projects | /r/commandline | 26 Apr 2023
    For now, with a couple aliases wrapping nb as I try it out. I'm also planning to give https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk a shot, it looks to be almost exactly what I'm looking for an offers a vim plugin to boot.
  • Need advice on what plugin for note taking
    2 projects | /r/vim | 13 Apr 2023
  • Note taking options?
    34 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Feb 2023
    Big fan of zk and zk-nvim. The biggest drawback was that link insertion depended on cmp, but now there's work to add linking as a direct LSP command. I've been using that since it's been merged in, and it makes creating and linking notes on the fly a breeze!
    34 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Feb 2023
    Can't recommend zk and zk nvim enough.only issue I have ran I to is https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk/issues/28 but I can work around it
  • How to make neovim follow liniks like [[vim]] in markdown files?
    2 projects | /r/neovim | 13 Jan 2023
    Here the LSP capabilities of the zk-nvim plugin are detailed and it says that you can navigate to links using go to definition, that would be vim.lsp.buf.definition() inside Neovim

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 zk and Vaadin you can also consider the following projects:

PrimeFaces - Ultimate Component Suite for JavaServer Faces

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

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

zeta-note - Markdown LSP server for easy note-taking with cross-references and diagnostics.

telekasten.nvim - A Neovim (lua) plugin for working with a markdown zettelkasten / wiki and mixing it with a journal, based on telescope.nvim

Spring - Spring Framework

Spring Boot - Spring Boot

jwt - Java Web Toolkit

Ratpack - Lean & powerful HTTP apps

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

jhipster - DEPRECATED: use https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-bom instead

Ninja - Ninja is a full stack web framework for Java. Rock solid, fast and super productive.