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Ext JS Application Development Blueprints

Ext JS Application Development Blueprints

By : Ramsay
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Ext JS Application Development Blueprints

Ext JS Application Development Blueprints

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Overview of this book

If you are a developer who has knowledge of Ext JS but would like to expand it to encompass the bigger picture of application development, then this book is ideal for you.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Introduction
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1. Introduction
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Humble beginnings
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What is application architecture?
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Ext JS
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Getting ready
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In safe hands
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Summary
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2. MVC and MVVM
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2. MVC and MVVM
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Diary of always
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Bringing MVC to the Web
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Ext JS and MVC
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How does it help your application
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MVC and the illusion of choice
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Introducing MVVM
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An event domain example
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Summary
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3. Application Structure
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3. Application Structure
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Ideas for structure
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Getting to know your application
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Cultivating your code
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The solution to pollution
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Summary – mind your own beeswax
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4. Sencha Cmd
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4. Sencha Cmd
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What is Sencha Cmd?
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Why is it important?
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Setting up your application
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The generation game
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Develop in style
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Care for the environment
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Before the build
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Code complete
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The best of the rest
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Summary
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5. Practical – a CMS Application
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5. Practical – a CMS Application
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A content-managed system
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The requirements
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Starting at the bottom
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Work your way up
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Where the wild things are
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The real deal
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Creating a structure
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Data-driven design
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A room with a view
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Summary
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6. Practical – Monitoring Dashboard
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6. Practical – Monitoring Dashboard
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Application design
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Requirements
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Data structure
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The view from the top
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Flexibility and pragmatism
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Does this hurt?
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Onwards and upwards
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Data first
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Storing the data
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With a view to a controller
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The main view controller
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The dashboard
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The dashboard view model
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The dashboard view controller
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Web logs subpage
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A view on the Web
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Controlling the Web
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More and more subpages
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Summary
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7. Practical – an E-mail Client
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7. Practical – an E-mail Client
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Form factors
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Application design
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I require to admire
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Responding to the situation
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Input required
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A view to a thrill
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Application state
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A binding agreement
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An eventful application
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Coding – it's been a long time
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It's under control
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Login view
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Main force
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The head of the family
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Unravel the thread
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I am the best message
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A composed finish
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Deciding on a theme
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Summary
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8. Practical – Questionnaire Component
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8. Practical – Questionnaire Component
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Application design – my way
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Data structure
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Data flow
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Sketchy sketching
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Get set
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The data layer
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The payload
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The wizard component
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One step forward
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Making progress
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Step by step
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Questionnaire command and control
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The wizard model
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A delightful host
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Mixin the night away
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Summary
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9. A Shopping Application
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9. A Shopping Application
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About the app
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Back to Ext JS
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The data layer
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Component interaction
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The simplicity of view models
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Code, code, and more code
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Interface in your face
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Categorically speaking
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Product placement
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A basket case
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The account window
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Summary
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10. Debugging and Performance
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10. Debugging and Performance
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In-browser debugging
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Breaking and busting
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Performance in Ext JS
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Quick on the draw
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Analyzing performance
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11. Application Testing
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11. Application Testing
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Total testing
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Testing tool time with Jasmine
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Testing with robots
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Testability
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Faking it with mocks
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Continuous coverage
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Summary
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Index
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Index

Chapter 11. Application Testing

Our role as architects isn't just to tick the boxes, send the application to the client, and forget about it. We have a responsibility, both from a professional perspective and a business perspective to produce software that tries to exceed expectations. A part of this was mentioned in Chapter 10, Debugging and Performance, in which we discussed the need to build an application that responded quickly to user actions. Now, we'll talk about building a robust application, one that stands up to scrutiny when it's under intense use.

What does it mean for an application to be robust? It means that if we click on a button, we see the expected result. If we try and enter an invalid e-mail address, we see a validation message. If we refresh the page, we find ourselves on the same screen as before. If the network connection drops out, remote requests get retried later. If we try and break the application, and so on, can we succeed?

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