SenchaCon 2015 is April 7-9 and will take place in the San Francisco Bay Area. Registration is now open. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to rub elbows with Sencha users from around the globe and see how they use Sencha to drive their businesses. Sign up now to get super early bird pricing. It’s only available to the first 100 registrants!
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4 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a JavaScript Framework
Over the last five years, there’s 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. But, have design patterns and the general utility of micro-library stacks really added productive value to full-scale enterprise web development? To find out, read this article and sign up for our upcoming webinar.
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We’ve only had the iOS 8 GA bytes for a few days, but we wanted to do as quick and complete a write-up as we could to give the global web developer community an in-depth look at Apple’s latest release. We’ve run our battery of benchmarks and tests, and we’re excited to share what we’ve uncovered.
18 Comments Read moreA Fond Farewell to YUI
Last week, Yahoo announced they are immediately stopping all new development on their Yahoo User Interface (YUI) library. The Sencha Ext JS framework and YUI have a kinship and a long history together, so we wanted to take this opportunity to reflect on our past and discuss what the future holds.
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iOS 7.1: The Bug Fix Release Arrives
Last October we reviewed the web implementation in iOS7.0. We were disappointed in the release, and said that "the sheer number of bugs and broken features, clearly mark this release as a beta". Now that iOS 7.1 has just shipped, we decided to revisit our assessment and see how much progress Apple has made polishing the product.
9 Comments Read moreApp Inspector for Sencha Touch and Ext JS Developers
App Inspector for Sencha 2.0 is a Google Chrome Developer Tools extension for debugging Sencha apps. It offers support for Ext JS (4.x) and Sencha Touch (2.x) apps and is available to the community now from Sencha Labs, our non-profit foundation. Check out the code on GitHub and view the screencast.
14 Comments Read moreThe State of HTML5 Development in the Enterprise
In December and January, Sencha surveyed a sample of 2,128 business application developers from its HTML5 development community. We asked about the types of applications that developers are building, the technologies that they’re using, as well as the devices they’re supporting. Many of the responses were in line with trends that the industry is aware of — for example, it’s no surprise that iPads are popular target devices — but there were also surprising results.
17 Comments Read moreToward Modern Web Apps with ECMAScript 6
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 stack, ECMAScript has gained significant traction and redefined the scope of HTML5 applications. In this article, we’ll cover updates in ECMAScript 6.
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Back in June, we surveyed 450 developers from the community about the current browsers they use, what browsers they support in their applications, and what their future browser support plans were. 95%+ of the developers we surveyed were using Ext JS to create business applications split somewhat evenly between business to employee, business to business and business to consumer apps.
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