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Learning DHTMLX Suite UI

By : Eli Geske
Book Image

Learning DHTMLX Suite UI

By: Eli Geske

Overview of this book

JavaScript applications provide an excellent user experience for small to large scale enterprise applications. The amazing growth of JavaScript has opened the door for many great libraries such as DHTMLX. "Learning DHTMLX Suite UI" will teach you how to use these libraries effectively so you can make presentations that will take your employer's/ client's breath away! "Learning DHTMLX Suite UI" is a step-by-step guide that will teach you the basics of DHTMLX library components and how to apply them in a real-world scenario. This book will start with the installation of DHTMLX before moving on to explore the features of DHTMLX and helping you to create your first user management application. "Learning DHTMLX Suite UI" will guide you through the installation of DHTMLX as a single-page application. As you progress from one chapter to the next, you will gradually build a simple user management application. You will also learn how to create forums with validation and how to use grids to add and edit users. The book will also suggest the best practices for using toolbars and refreshing data. With "Learning DHTMLX Suite UI Guide", you will be inspired to come up with your own great ideas for your future application development projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning DHTMLX Suite UI
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Testing


In the previous chapter, we added a list of users and lightly tested the application. Now that it is all completed, it looks like the following screenshot:

This is the time to test all of the functionality that was created. When testing, make sure you go through all of the points listed as follows:

  • The form should have all of the correct validations

  • The toolbar should enable and disable buttons and trigger the popup

  • Double-clicking a row should open the form with user information

  • Updating or adding a user should change the data in the grid and chart

  • There should not be any z-index issues with the popup over the chart

Next let's talk about troubleshooting.

Troubleshooting

When developing in JavaScript, syntax errors are extremely common, because errors happen at runtime and editors for JavaScript can be extremely limited. But if you pay close attention to your developer console in Chrome it will take you straight to the error and give a pretty reasonable explanation with the provided exception...