Vaadin Project

Taking Vaadin for a little spin. Created a Vaadin download from their start page https://start.vaadin.com/?preset=lts

• Selected Template Master-Detail
• Selected Type Java Only

Requirements

• Java 11+
• Maven 3.5+
• Docker Desktop

Using

Development

Run PostgreSQL in Docker

> docker run --rm \ 
--name postgresql \
-e POSTGRESQL_USERNAME=vaadin \
-e POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD=vaadin \
-e POSTGRESQL_DATABASE=vaadin \
-p 5432:5432 \
bitnami/postgresql:latest

Run application

Note! It will take a while if it is your first run. A lot of files will be downloaded.

> mvn spring-boot:run

Open http://localhost:8080

Production

• Build Web image (Docker)
• Run Compose (or do it you own way)

Build Web image

Vaadin has a production profile we will use with maven.
We use Spring Boot Plugin to build Docker image

> mvn -Pproduction spring-boot:build-image

Docker Compose

Command docker-compose will start up both database and webapplication. \
Run from root directory or use docker-compose -y <docker-compose.yml>

To start application run

> docker-compose up

To shutdown application run

> docker-compose down

Open http://localhost:8080