Vaadin Documentation - we recommend to download and read the Vaadin Book PDF.

If you have no prior experience with Vaadin, take a look at the official documentation:.

Official Kotlin Programming Language website.

To learn about Kotlin, consider the following materials:.

Therefore, I recommend to take it slowly and get familiar with both Vaadin and Kotlin first: If you have no prior experience with Kotlin or Vaadin, you might get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of new information. Though you don’t need to be a seasoned programmer to follow through, I assume a basic working knowledge of Kotlin and Vaadin.

I assume you have no prior knowledge of VoK and your goal is to create a VoK application from scratch.

Note: To skip the introduction and dive straight into the code, just skip to Creating a new Vok project Guide Assumptions

Write the starting pieces of a VoK application.

Understand the general layout of a VoK application.

Create a VoK application, and connect it to a SQL database.

Tribute: I got heavily inspired by the excellent Ruby on Rails tutorial.Īfter reading this guide, you will be able to: It introduces the basic concepts needed to create your own applications. This guide teaches you how to get Vaadin On Kotlin (VoK) up and running. Kotlin allows you to write clean, understandable and maintainable code. Vaadin lets you forget the web and program user interfaces and lets you program much like when creating a desktop application with conventional Java toolkits such as AWT, Swing, or SWT. Vaadin-on-Kotlin, or VoK for short, is an opinionated web application framework which uses Vaadin for its front-end and Kotlin for its back-end.

Converting the Comments Form to a component.

Creating components to clean up duplication in views.

Kotlin koan