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I am building an app for fire departments. Currently targeted at the german market.

The problem nearly every fire department which is based on volunteers have, is that it's hard to learn the location of all items on the different vehicles.

So i build a small quizz app to support the fire departments with this. Now every fireman can learn the location of the items on the go.

German website: http://fahrzeugkunde.hvoss.dev/

Techstack: App: Flutter Backend: Spring-Boot + Vaadin



Would you recommend Vaadin? I've never heard of it but looks really interesting. What are the advantages vs let's say springboot + angular?


I wouldn't recommend Vaadin. I worked on a work project using Vaadin 10+. Despite 10 and 14 being LTS releases they felt like they should still be in beta, my team ran into countless bugs. Vaadin didn't fix any of these bugs with any sense of urgency, even with a paid support contract (obviously less relevant for a side project). Working on that project almost made me leave the company, and the use of Vaadin was a significant factor in that.


Thanks for sharing you experience. At the end I think I'll just stick to learning Angular.


Not the OP, but figured I’d weigh in... I found it to be extremely productive when I used it for about 6 months. Only downside is that it’s not open source and some of its features are not free.




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