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Learning DHTMLX Suite UI

By : Eli Geske
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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

More features


The application we built was a fairly simple application to get us familiar with the components. But, if we want to use this in a real world environment, it would need some tweaking.

Server side

HTML5's localStorage is excellent for storing data on the client side and even allowing web applications to work offline. But once this data needs to be shared among other web users there needs to be some type of server-side storage for each client to share changes to the data.

There are so many options to choose from. Personally, I would create a web service that would write to a server-side database. Because we separated all of our data calls into the storage object, essentially a DAL (Data Access Layer), all that we would need to do is adjust these methods and add some Ajax calls. The rest of the application would remain untouched. Well, except for adding some progressOn and progressOff methods.

Adding icons

Something we didn't go over in the earlier chapters is the additional icons....