Spring Framework vs Vaadin: What are the differences?
What is Spring Framework? An application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform. It provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform
The framework's core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java EE platform..
What is Vaadin? Components and tools for building web apps in Java. It is the fastest way to build web applications in Java. It automates the communication between your server and the browser and gives you a high-level component API for all Vaadin components.
Spring Framework and Vaadin can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Spring Framework is an open source tool with 30.6K GitHub stars and 19.6K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spring Framework's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Spring Framework has a broader approval, being mentioned in 4 company stacks & 10 developers stacks; compared to Vaadin, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.