Ext JS

20 Things To Avoid/Do When Getting Started With Ext JS & Sencha Touch

Development Tips,Ext JS,Web Design & Development Blog 17 Comments

When learning a new topic people often make the same mistakes and follow the same bad practices as each other. It usually follows by them realising that what they’ve been doing for a few days/weeks/months is a bad way of doing it and wondering how they didn’t realise earlier.

In this article we’ve put together a (non-exhausted!) list of a few of the things we’ve picked up and things we recommend you do when starting out with Ext JS (hey, even you veteran developers might learn something new!). These things have come up through our own experience; through seeing and replying to the same issues on the forums again and again; and just general good programming practices.

Hopefully this will jump you a few rungs up the ladder of learning Ext JS and help you avoid falling into the usual traps!

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10 Reasons Why Ext JS 4′s Charts Are Awesome

Ext JS,Web Design & Development Blog 3 Comments

The new Charting package that is shipping with the latest Ext JS 4 Preview is fantastic and really does dwarf the previous releases offering (which was also very good). I’m going to outline a few of the key features that make it so good.

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How To: Integrate JS Builder 3 with Eclipse or Aptana on Windows

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Overview

Integrating JS Builder 3 with Eclipse or Aptana may save you some time building your Javascript application for a testing or production environment.

The aim of JS Builder is, ultimately, to make your website or application load quicker. It does this by combining your Javascript and CSS files, minifying them and outputting them to fewer files. You may, for example, opt to have one CSS file, and two Javascript files (Ext-all.js and app.js). This results in far fewer requests to your server which, although the individual file sizes are larger, boosts performance.

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