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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 Ext JS to mobile


Mobile applications are very popular nowadays. And if we have a really nice application implemented with Ext JS, it is normal that we want to have the same app available on a mobile device. What a lot of people think is that just because Ext JS is cross browser, we just need to deploy the application in a domain on the Internet, give the link to the mobile users and that is okay, the job is done. But it is not. Although Ext JS is compatible to mobile browsers as well, Ext JS does not offer the best user experience to mobile users. If we really want to offer a great mobile experience, we need to transform our Ext JS application into a mobile application. But, how can we do that? Learning Objective-C, Java API for Android, and other languages can be time consuming, and we do not always have that much time to spend.

So we would like to introduce Sencha Touch, the Ext JS cousin. Sencha Touch was the first HTML 5 mobile framework in the market. And more good news: you do...