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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

From web to desktop – Sencha Desktop Packager


If you are an experienced Ext JS developer, going to production always meant deploying the Ext JS code to a web server and the server code as well; it does not matter if you use PHP, Java, .NET, Ruby, or any other language. Both code, frontend (Ext JS) and backend are deployed on a web server.

But there is another way to distribute the Ext JS code to the users: going desktop! We are not talking about developing a project using Java desktop (such as Swing) or using C or C++, we are talking about having a native application (for Mac OS, Linux, and Windows) made with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code, and of course, using our favorite framework, which is Ext JS.

There are a few tools in the market that can do it for us, but in this book we will explore another Sencha tool that is called Sencha Desktop Packager. Sencha Desktop Packager is a paid tool from Sencha, but we can download a trial version to test it and see if we like it. To download it, go...