This is an example project that 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.
The project is a standard Maven project, so you can import it to your IDE of choice. Read more how to set up a development environment for Vaadin projects (Windows, Linux, macOS).
This project was created from https://start.vaadin.com.
There are two ways to run the application:
- To run from the command line, use
mvnand open http://localhost:8080 in your browser. - Another way is to to run the
Applicationclass directly from your IDE.
- On the right side of the window, select Maven --> Plugins-->
spring-boot-->spring-boot:rungoal - Optionally, you can disable tests by clicking on a
Skip Tests modeblue button.
Clicking on the green run button will start the application.
After the application has started, you can view your it at http://localhost:8080/ in your browser.
- Right click on a project folder and select
Run As-->Maven build... After that a configuration window is opened. - In the window set the value of the Goals field to
spring-boot:run - You can optionally select
Skip testscheckbox - All the other settings can be left to default
Once configurations are set clicking Run will start the application
MainView.javainsrc/main/javacontains the navigation setup. It uses App Layout.viewspackage insrc/main/javacontains the server-side Java views of your application.viewsfolder infrontend/src/contains the client-side JavaScript views of your application.
vaadin.com has lots of material to help you get you started:
- Follow the tutorials in vaadin.com/tutorials. Especially vaadin.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-flow is good for getting a grasp of the basic Vaadin concepts.
- Read the documentation in vaadin.com/docs.
- For a bigger Vaadin application example, check out the Full Stack App starter from vaadin.com/start.