Practical Ext JS 4

by Prabhu Sunderaraman

Overview

Practical Ext JS 4 will get you up and running, using Ext JS 4.2 for your projects, as quickly as possible. After a quick refresher on some JavaScript basics, you will get to grips with Ext JS 4’s OO concepts (such as mixins) and familiarize yourself with its UI components and layout. You'll learn all the core features of the Ext JS framework, such as its MVC architecture, theming and styling your applications, and displaying data through components such as grids, trees, and charts. You'll use the Ext JS components and create an entire application from scratch by following the many practical examples. Finally, you'll learn about unit testing and packaging to build and deploy better applications.    

• Provides you with a solid knowledge of the building blocks of Ext JS 4
• Takes you through developing applications using the MVC architecture
• Demonstrates extending the UI with custom components and plugins
• Shows you how to unit test Ext JS 4 applications with Jasmine and deploy them with Sencha Cmd
• Completely up-to-date for the latest Ext JS 4.2

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430260738
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	08/28/2013
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Prabhu Sunderaraman is a Software Consultant with DuraSoft, India. He is a hands-on developer who likes to code all the time and has a passion for speaking, teaching, and blogging. He conducts corporate training workshops and consults on variety of technologies for companies all over the globe. He is extremely fluent in coding in multiple languages and a strong advocate of test driven development. Prabhu is also an author of Spring 3.0 Black book, a comprehensive book on Spring framework. He lives in the city of Chennai, in the southern part of India.

Table of Contents

• Core JavaScript and JavaScript Frameworks
• Overview of Ext JS 4
• Understanding the Ext JS 4 API
• Controls and Layout
• Working with Data
• Data Controls
• Drag and Drop
• Theming and Styling
• MVC with Ext JS 4
• Extending, Unit Testing, and Packaging