Sencha Architect is a great IDE, and even if it is specific for Sencha frameworks, it does not mean that you cannot use it with your favorite IDE, such as Eclipse, Netbeans, Visual Studio, Aptana, and others. In this topic we will demonstrate how to use Sencha Architect with Eclipse, and you can use the same logic for any other IDE.
Let's say we are working on a Java project, and the frontend will be developed with Ext JS, and therefore, we will use Sencha Architect do to all the Ext JS code for us. If we take a look at the structure of a Java Web project created with Eclipse, we will have a structure as shown in the following screenshot:
Inside WebContent, we will add our JSS, CSS, and HTML (or JSP) files, so the Ext JS code must be inside the WebContent
folder. How can we save a Sencha Architect project so that we can have exactly what we need? When we save the Sencha Architect project, we need to select the Eclipse project as the root folder (Save Path...