Responsive Add-on for Vaadin 7

Responsive is an extension add-on for Vaadin 7. It provides any component or UI the ability to respond to changes in their size using CSS. It provides similar functionality as CSS media queries do, but it works also in IE8 and you can respond to size changes on a component level, not just on a viewport level.

Online demo

Try the add-on demo at http://demo.vaadin.com/responsive

Download release

Official releases of this add-on are available at Vaadin Directory. For Maven instructions, download and reviews, go to http://vaadin.com/addon/vaadin-responsive

Building and running demo

git clone https://github.com/vaadin/responsive.git
cd responsive
mvn clean install
cd demo
mvn jetty:run

To see the demo, navigate to http://localhost:8080/

Development with Eclipse IDE

For further development of this add-on, the following tool-chain is recommended:

Eclipse IDE
m2e wtp plug-in (install it from Eclipse Marketplace)
Vaadin Eclipse plug-in (install it from Eclipse Marketplace)
JRebel Eclipse plug-in (install it from Eclipse Marketplace)
Chrome browser

Importing project

Choose File > Import... > Existing Maven Projects

Note that Eclipse may give "Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration" errors for pom.xml. Use "Permanently mark goal resources in pom.xml as ignored in Eclipse build" quick-fix to mark these errors as permanently ignored in your project. Do not worry, the project still works fine.

Debugging server-side

If you have not already compiled the widgetset, do it now by running vaadin:install Maven target for responsive-root project.

If you have a JRebel license, it makes on the fly code changes faster. Just add JRebel nature to your responsive-demo project by clicking project with right mouse button and choosing JRebel > Add JRebel Nature

To debug project and make code modifications on the fly in the server-side, right-click the responsive-demo project and choose Debug As > Debug on Server. Navigate to http://localhost:8080/responsive-demo/ to see the application.

Debugging client-side

The most common way of debugging and making changes to the client-side code is dev-mode. To create debug configuration for it, open responsive-demo project properties and click "Create Development Mode Launch" button on the Vaadin tab. Right-click newly added "GWT development mode for responsive-demo.launch" and choose Debug As > Debug Configurations... Open up Classpath tab for the development mode configuration and choose User Entries. Click Advanced... and select Add Folders. Choose Java and Resources under responsive/src/main and click ok. Now you are ready to start debugging the client-side code by clicking debug. Click Launch Default Browser button in the GWT Development Mode in the launched application. Now you can modify and breakpoints to client-side classes and see changes by reloading the web page.

Another way of debugging client-side is superdev mode. To enable it, uncomment devModeRedirectEnabled line from the end of DemoWidgetSet.gwt.xml located under responsive-demo resources folder and compile the widgetset once by running vaadin:compile Maven target for responsive-demo. Refresh responsive-demo project resources by right clicking the project and choosing Refresh. Click "Create SuperDevMode Launch" button on the Vaadin tab of the responsive-demo project properties panel to create superder mode code server launch configuration and modify the class path as instructed above. After starting the code server by running SuperDevMode launch as Java application, you can navigate to http://localhost:8080/responsive-demo/?superdevmode. Now all code changes you do to your client side will get compiled as soon as you reload the web page. You can also access Java-sources and set breakpoints inside Chrome if you enable source maps from inspector settings.

Release notes

Version 1.0.0.alpha1

Initial public release
Support for width-range and height-range CSS attribute selectors on the client side

Roadmap

After being offered as an add-on for a while, the Responsive extension is targeted to being integrated into the Vaadin core framework.

Issue tracking

The issues for this add-on are tracked using GitHub Issues. All bug reports and feature requests are appreciated.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome, but there are no guarantees that they are accepted as such. Process for contributing is the following:

Fork this project
Create an issue to this project about the contribution (bug or feature) if there is no such issue about it already. Try to keep the scope minimal.
Develop and test the fix or functionality carefully. Only include minimum amount of code needed to fix the issue.
Refer to the fixed issue in commit
Send a pull request for the original project
Comment on the original issue that you have implemented a fix for it

License & Author

Add-on is distributed under Apache License 2.0. For license terms, see LICENSE.txt.

Responsive is written by Jouni Koivuviita (jounikoivuviita)

Developer Guide

Getting started

Here is a simple example on how to try out the add-on component:

Java

protected void init(VaadinRequest request) {
    // Make the UI instance responsive
    new Responsive(this);
}

CSS

.v-ui[width-range~="0-800px"] {
    /* Styles that apply when the UI's width is between 0 and 800 pixels */
}

.v-ui[width-range~="801px-"] {
    /* Styles that apply when the UI's width is over 800 pixels */
}

For a more comprehensive example, see src/main/java/com/vaadin/demo/ResponsiveDemoUI.java and src/main/webapp/VAADIN/themes/demo/styles.scss

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