Releases · vaadin/flow

New features

Set up project for development
- Renamed from Vaadin Framework to Hummingbird
- Mavenized build validated using Travis and quality-checked using SonarQube
- DefaultWidgetSet renamed to ClientEngine
  - Uses GWT's single script linker so that there's only one file to download
- Client-side is tested as pure JUnit tests and using GWTTestCase
- Update to a pinned GWT 2.8.0 snapshot
Introduce a low-level StateTree for all the session-specific data that is synchronised between server and client.
- Reactive event handling on the client
Introduce a server-side Element API
- Properties and attributes
- Children
- Event handlers
  - Send event data to the server
  - Property value synchronization
- Class list
- Inline styles
- Text nodes and regular elements are supported
Simplified bootstrapping
- Initial UIDL is included in the bootstrap HTML page
- UI on the server is mapped directly to the <body> in the browser
Lightweight client-side dependency injection framework
Support adding stylesheets and javascript using Page.addDependency
UIDL messages are built as JSON instead of by concatenating strings
@JsInterop wrappers for native JS collections instead of using emulated Java List, Map and Set.
Page.executeJavaScript for calling JS from the server