Learning Ext JS

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As more and more of our work is done through a web browser, and more businesses build web rather than desktop applications, users want web applications that look and feel like desktop applications. Ext JS is a JavaScript library that makes it (relatively) easy to create desktop-style user interfaces in a web application, including multiple windows, toolbars, drop-down menus, dialog boxes, and much more. Both Commercial and Open Source licenses are available for Ext JS.

Ext JS has the unique advantage of being the only client-side UI library that also works as an application development library. Learning Ext JS will help you create rich, dynamic, and AJAX-enabled web applications that look good and perform beyond the expectations of your users.

From the building blocks of the application layout, to complex dynamic Grids and Forms, this book will guide you through the basics of using Ext JS, giving you the knowledge required to create rich user experiences beyond typical web interfaces. It will also provide you with the tools you need to use AJAX, by consuming server-side data directly into the many interfaces of the Ext JS component library.

By using a series of straightforward examples backed by screenshots, Learning Ext JS will help you create web applications that look good and perform beyond the expectations of your users.

• Create responsive forms
• Look at Web Applications from an entirely new perspective
• Learn to use the major UI components available in Ext JS
• Understand how external data can be consumed by Ext JS
• Query and process remote data into your application
• Use Layouts to bring all of the Ext JS pieces together
• Use Ext JS effects to manipulate the DOM in exciting ways
• Provide a consistent look and feel to your application using Components
• Change the visual style of Ext JS using theming support
• Find Custom Community Extensions to expand your applications
• Create your own custom library extensions

1. Getting Started
Setup Ext JS to be used on your page and troubleshoot common installation problems.

2. The Staples of Ext
Explore some of the foundational components and configuration of Ext JS.

3. Forms
Create complex forms, database-driven combo boxes, and populate form fields with data.

4. Buttons, Menus, and Toolbars
Use toolbars to create compact complex navigation for your web application.

5. Grids—Making Data Intuitive
Render database-driven grids that include paging, complex rendering, and user interaction.

6. Editor Grid
Go past the standard grid, and set up an editor grid that edits data in line.

7. In an AJAX World, You Need a Good Layout
Create a layout that provides a very flexible and attractive user interface.

8. Ext JS Does Grow on Trees
Demonstrating how to display and manipulate hierarchical data.

9. Windows and Dialogs
Focusing on displaying information in pop-up containers.

10. Effects
Add spice to your applications with compelling visual effects.

11. Drag and Drop
Learn how to move and rearrange elements within your application.

12. It's All About the Data
An introduction into the various types of data Stores, the kinds of data they can consume, how that data is defined, and how to get it.

13. Code for Reuse: Extending Ext JS
An introduction to creating custom application components by extending existing components of the framework

14. The Power of Ext JS: What Else Can You Do?
A look at many of the utility classes of the library, including formatting and state management, as well as Community Components and resources.

The book provides plenty of fun example code and screenshots to guide you through the creation of examples to assist with learning. By taking a chapter-by-chapter look at each major aspect of the Ext JS framework, the book lets you digest the available features in small, easily understandable, chunks, allowing you to start using the library for your development needs immediately.

This book is written for Web Application Developers who are familiar with HTML but may have little to no experience with JavaScript application development. If you are starting to build a new web application, or are re-vamping an existing web application, then this book is for you.