Is vaadin frontend?

Is vaadin frontend?

Vaadin components are a set of mobile-optimized UI components, built on the Web Components standard. These components are supported by all major browsers and can be used with Vaadin – or other frontend frameworks – to build UIs.

Is vaadin scalable?

In conclusion, yes, Vaadin applications do scale well. As with any framework, it’s possible to make mistakes.

Is vaadin free to use?

Is Vaadin free to use? Yes. Vaadin is an Apache 2.0-licensed, open-source framework. The framework and components are free to use for any purpose.

Is vaadin low code?

Based on the fact that the low-code tool generated a web UI based on Vaadin, we agreed to create a prototype with Vaadin Flow. It turned out that Vaadin could be a very good fit for the UI modernization. After some discussion, the customer decided to part with the low-code tool and use Vaadin as the UI framework.

What are the Vaadin LUMO CSS variables?

The Vaadin Lumo theme uses CSS variables to define the look and feel of web components, making it easy to alter the look and feel of the components by tweaking a set of basic variables. You can quickly discover the variables available in your project by opening up inspector tools and taking a look at the element’s CSS properties.

What are CSS variables and how to use them?

The purpose of CSS variables ( CSS Custom Properties) is to enable using a CSS value across your whole application. Previously this has been possible by using a CSS preprocessor like Sass. Unlike SCSS or LESS, CSS variables are natively supported by most modern browsers (not IE11), and therefore there’s no need for separate compilation step.

How to add custom styles to the Vaadin-button?

The global styles are defined within element inside shared-styles.html. Next, we can introduce new variables for a custom color and custom gradient. To use those new variables only within the scope of vaadin-button, a Theme Module for vaadin-button has to be added. For vaadin-button the border-radius is set to be 6px.

What is the scope of a CSS Variable?

CSS variables are a good match for Web Components as the styles are inherited just like any other CSS properties, which helps to tame the added complexity that using ShadowDOM can lead to. More about global and local scope at ThemableMixin documentation.