Ext JS

[Lourens]

Is there anyone in the Northern Suburbs of Cape town that can help me to understand the basics of Ext JS?

I just cannot get my mid around it even with all the examples that is available to me as reference.

 

[GsaDurbs]

Hi Lourens,

Sorry I'm not in Cape Town but I thought i'd comment on your question.

Nothing personal but I had a look at ExtJS and also battled. Never really got flying with it and being new to Javascript didn't help matters. Struggled with the docs and found examples disjointed.

A couple of months ago, I started playing with isomorphic's SmartClient framework (http://www.smartclient.com) and I found this much easier to get into. Excellent Docs, examples included, forums very active and responses generally quick and helpful.

I haven't done any serious projects with it yet but am planning to in the new year.

There also seems to be a war of words surrounding ExtJS licensing which you may want to take note of in this blog post - http://latrz.com/1892

My 10c worth

Cheers
Graham

 

[Raithlin]

One word: jQuery. Simple to use, excellent documentation, and online support through their forums. Microsoft has chosen this as their de-facto javascript addon for their ASP.Net MVC platform. Very nice (if you can do CSS, you can use jQuery).

 

[Lourens]

Graham,

I was not aware of this battle surrounding the ExtJS licensing - I'll have a look as SmartClient as altenative.

Thank you,

Lourens

 

[FarligOpptreden]

I prefer writing my own JavaScript code libraries. You have a lot more control over what you want to achieve. But, this aside, jQuery is pretty good. Don't have extensive experience with it, but that which I've seen looks pretty powerful AND easy to use.

 

[Raithlin]

I prefer writing my own JavaScript code libraries. You have a lot more control over what you want to achieve.

It also takes more time, and developers coming into the team have to learn your libraries. Dude, jQuery is here to stay - esp. for ASP.Net developers. Sure, you can use another library (including your own), but why when support for such a great library is already built in?

VS integration aside, I made my own functions, etc. until I picked this little gem up. Now my Javascript coding is faster, and it's automatically cross-browser compatible. It takes the worry out of javascript coding. You really should give it a project or two...