Over the last five years, there has been an explosion of innovation in both web and native technologies. With the rapid release of libraries, frameworks and tools, developers now have many options to create applications for this new world. But,…

Guest Blog Post Overview With the launch of Ext JS 5, Sencha introduced a new and more powerful Sencha Charts package, which has built-in support for touch events. This means you can use touch gestures to interact with the charts.…

Last week, Yahoo announced they are immediately stopping all new development on their Yahoo User Interface (YUI) library. There are tens of thousands of YUI developers that have written millions of lines of code that are probably sad to have…

Ready, Aim, Sass Let’s say you have built your application, but your SCSS has changed. There is no need to sit through the entire build process again. Instead, why not target the exact part of the build that you need?…

ECMAScript, the official name for the language we all know as JavaScript, has enjoyed tremendous success over the last couple of years. With convergent standard support, performance boosts from modern JavaScript engines, as well as its foray into the server-side…

Recently we’ve heard some myths being repeated about mobile HTML performance that are not all that accurate. Like good urban myths, they sound compelling and plausible. But these myths are based on incorrect premises, misconceptions about the relationship between native…

Guest Blog Post The Salesforce Platform Mobile Services are a set of tools, frameworks, and APIs to help you rapidly build enterprise mobile apps for any device. The Salesforce Platform Mobile Services pair with your mobile app just as seamlessly…

A few months ago, I wrote a post titled Automating Unit Tests that covered how developers could write unit tests for their business logic and validate their JavaScript syntax. Understanding these concepts is essential when building an enterprise application: bugs…

Extensions provide developers with valuable features beyond those that ship in Sencha's frameworks, and are a very important part of the Sencha platform. At Sencha, we are investing to improve the ecosystem of extensions on our platform and I wanted…