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Mastering Ext JS

By : Loiane Groner
Book Image

Mastering Ext JS

By: Loiane Groner

Overview of this book

<p>Ext JS 4 is a JavaScript framework that provides you with the resources to build multi-browser, high-performance, and rich Internet applications.<br /><br />Mastering Ext JS is a practical, hands-on guide that will teach you how to develop a complete application with Ext JS. You’ll begin by learning how to create the project’s structure and login screen before mastering advanced level features such as dynamic menus and master-detail grids, before finally preparing the application for production.<br /><br />Mastering Ext JS will help you to utilize Ext JS to its full potential and will show you how to create a complete Ext JS application from the scratch, as well as explaining how to create a Wordpress theme.</p> <p><br />You will learn how to create user and group security, master-detail grids and forms, charts, trees, and how to export data to excel including PDF and images, always focusing on best practices.</p> <p><br />You will also learn how to customize themes and how to prepare the application to be ready for deployment upon completion. Each chapter of the book is focused on one task and helps you understand and master an individual aspect of the application.</p> <p><br />By the end of the book, you will have learned everything you need to know to truly master Ext JS and to start building advanced applications.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Ext JS
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Before we start


Before we start the step-by-step tutorial for this chapter, you need to have WordPress installed. You can use the one you use for your blog (for example, http://loiane.com and http://loianegroner.com uses WordPress) or you can use a local installation.

If you do not know how to install WordPress, you can follow this tutorial: http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress.

For testing purposes, in this chapter we will use a local installation. The WordPress installation used in this chapter was installed inside the masteringextjs folder inside the htdocs folder from XAMPP as shown in the following screenshot:

The preceding screenshot shows the WordPress installation with some posts for testing purposes. We will build our theme based on this installation.

After you install WordPress, you will have something like the following screenshot (using the default theme that is active when we install WordPress):

And by the time we finish implementing the Ext JS theme for WordPress, we...