Generate Java code (Vaadin-Flow support)

[Osiris-Team]

@mjvesa
As I understood a LitElement is basically the frontend representation of a component and misses the backend part.
Vaadin flow kind of lets you code components fully in the backend without needing to seperate it into frontend and backend, could we add support for that?

[mjvesa]

It is possible to add support for Flow backend components. Flow has two APIs for writing components. The Element API is a lower level API that let's you create elements directly. That is already supported by GUI Builder. Please see the "Java templates" section at https://gui-builder.com/docs/.

The other API is the Component API which is the usual way of creating components for Flow. It poses some difficulties regarding writing and reading the components to .java files, but I've been considering adding support for that as well. One starting point could be to support the components produced by the new visual editor at start.vaadin.com

[Osiris-Team]

Ah okay then it already supports it kind off.
The current downside is that you can't benefit from all the features of the component api.
Not sure how annoying that is, will try it out and come back to you.