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Learning Ext JS 4

By : Crysfel Villa, Armando Gonzalez
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Learning Ext JS 4

By: Crysfel Villa, Armando Gonzalez

Overview of this book

<p>Ext JS is a JavaScript library for building interactive web applications using techniques such as Ajax, DHTML, and DOM scripting.<br /><br />Ext JS 4 features expanded functionality, plugin-free charting, and a new MVC architecture, it's the best Ext JS web application development platform yet. It helps develop incredible web apps for every browser.<br /><br />Learning Ext JS 4 will teach you how to get the best of each Ext JS component and also show you some very practical examples that you can use in real world applications. You will also learn why it is so useful and powerful in developing fast and beautiful applications.<br /><br />The book starts with the very basics of Ext JS. You will learn to create a small application step-by-step, and add new features to it in every chapter.<br /><br />Once you grasp the basics, you will learn more complicated topics such as creating new components, templates, architecture, patterns, and also tips and techniques that will help you improve your skills on JavaScript and Ext JS 4. We also cover how to create themes to make your application design beautiful and customize it the way you need.<br /><br />At the end of the book, you will have a working application built using all the knowledge you gained from the book.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Learning Ext JS 4
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we have learned about the component's lifecycle. We don't need to remember every step that is executed in each phase, but we should know the methods that we can override in our subclasses, so we can add specific functionality in one of the three phases. When creating our custom components, it's very important to remember that we need to destroy all our references and internal components that we have created. This way we'll free memory. We've also learned about the containers and layouts. Now we know how to add other components to a container and arrange them according to our needs.

In the next chapter, we're going to talk about the data package. We'll learn about the models, stores, associations, and so many more exciting things.