Flow CRM Tutorial
This project 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
The project is a standard Maven project. To run it from the command line,
type mvnw
(Windows), or ./mvnw
(Mac & Linux), then open
http://localhost:8080 in your browser.
You can also import the project to your IDE of choice as you would with any Maven project. Read more on how to import Vaadin projects to different IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, and VS Code).
Deploying to Production
To create a production build, call mvnw clean package -Pproduction
(Windows),
or ./mvnw clean package -Pproduction
(Mac & Linux).
This will build a JAR file with all the dependencies and front-end resources,
ready to be deployed. The file can be found in the target
folder after the build completes.
Once the JAR file is built, you can run it using
java -jar target/flowcrmtutorial-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
Project structure
MainLayout.java
insrc/main/java
contains the navigation setup (i.e., the side/top bar and the main menu). This setup uses App Layout.views
package insrc/main/java
contains the server-side Java views of your application.views
folder infrontend/
contains the client-side JavaScript views of your application.themes
folder infrontend/
contains the custom CSS styles.
Useful links
- Read the documentation at vaadin.com/docs.
- Follow the tutorial at vaadin.com/docs/latest/tutorial/overview.
- Create new projects at start.vaadin.com.
- Search UI components and their usage examples at vaadin.com/docs/latest/components.
- View use case applications that demonstrate Vaadin capabilities at vaadin.com/examples-and-demos.
- Build any UI without custom CSS by discovering Vaadin's set of CSS utility classes.
- Find a collection of solutions to common use cases at cookbook.vaadin.com.
- Find add-ons at vaadin.com/directory.
- Ask questions on Stack Overflow or join our Discord channel.
- Report issues, create pull requests in GitHub.
Deploying using Docker
To build the Dockerized version of the project, run
mvn clean package -Pproduction
docker build . -t flowcrmtutorial:latest
Once the Docker image is correctly built, you can test it locally using
docker run -p 8080:8080 flowcrmtutorial:latest