Project Base for Vaadin and Spring Boot

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.

Running the Application

There are two ways to run the application : using mvn spring-boot:run or by running the Application class directly from your IDE.

You can use any IDE of your preference,but we suggest Eclipse or Intellij IDEA. Below are the configuration details to start the project using a spring-boot:run command. Both Eclipse and Intellij IDEA are covered.

Eclipse

• 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 tests checkbox
• All the other settings can be left to default

Once configurations are set clicking Run will start the application

Intellij IDEA

• On the right side of the window, select Maven--> Plugins--> spring-boot --> spring-boot:run goal
• Optionally, you can disable tests by clicking on a Skip Tests mode blue button.

Clicking on the green run button will start the application.

After application has started, you can view your it at http://localhost:8080/ in your browser.

If you want to run the application locally in the production mode, use spring-boot:run -Pproduction command instead.

Running Integration Tests

Integration tests are implemented using Vaadin TestBench. The tests take a few minutes to run and are therefore included in a separate Maven profile. To run the tests using Google Chrome, execute

mvn verify -Pit

and make sure you have a valid TestBench license installed. If the tests fail because of an old Chrome Driver or you want to use a different browser, you'll need to update the webdrivers.xml file in the project root.

Profile it adds the following parameters to run integration tests:

-Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=path_to_driver
-Dcom.vaadin.testbench.Parameters.runLocally=chrome

If you would like to run a separate test make sure you have added these parameters to VM Options of JUnit run configuration

Project overview

Project follow the Maven's standard directory layout structure:

• Under the 'srs/main/java' are located Application sources
  • Application.java is a runnable Java application class and a starting point
  • GreetService.java is a Spring service class
  • MainView.java is a default view and entry point of the application
• Under the 'srs\test' are located test files
• src\main\resources contains configuration files and static resources
• The \frontend\ directory in the root folder contains client-side dependencies and resource files
  • All CSS styles used by the application are located under the root directory 'frontend\styles'
  • Templates would be stored under the \frontend\src

More Information and Next Steps

• Vaadin Basics https://vaadin.com/docs
• More components at https://vaadin.com/components and https://vaadin.com/directory
• Download this and other examples at https://vaadin.com/start
• Using Vaadin and Spring https://vaadin.com/docs/v14/flow/spring/tutorial-spring-basic.html article
• Join discussion and ask a question at https://vaadin.com/forum

Notes

If you run application from a command line, remember to prepend a mvn to the command.