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Mastering Ext JS

By : Loiane Groner
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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

Displaying the Film data grid


First, let's start with the basics. Whenever we need to implement a complex screen, we need to start with the simplest component we can develop. After we have it working 100 percent, we can increment it and add more complex capabilities. So first, we need to create a model and a store to represent the Film table. And after we have this part of the code working, we can work with the Category, Language, and Actor relationships.

The Film model

First, we are going to create the model to represent the Film table. Let's not worry about the relationships this table has for now.

We need to create a new class named Packt.model.film.Film:

Ext.define('Packt.model.film.Film', {
    extend: 'Packt.model.sakila.Sakila',

    idProperty: 'film_id',

    fields: [
        { name: 'film_id' },
        { name: 'title', type: 'string' },
        { name: 'description', type: 'string'},
        { name: 'release_year', type: 'int'},
        { name: 'language_id'},
        { name: 'original_language_id...