Ask a team with a ten-year-old Ext JS application how much of it is covered by automated tests and the answer is usually a polite laugh. The reasons are understandable: our components are heavy, they need a DOM, they talk…

The Ext JS data grid can do almost anything an enterprise screen needs: grouping, summaries, filtering, cell and row editing, locked columns, spreadsheet-style selection and export. That breadth is exactly why it deserves a wrapper. If every team configures it…

The data grid gets most of the attention in enterprise React apps, and for good reason. But grids answer one kind of question: "show me the records." Users also ask "how do these numbers break down?", "how is this organized?"…

Most teams choose a React UI component library by looking at buttons, inputs, themes and documentation, then add a data grid later. For many apps, that order works. But in enterprise apps where users spend most of their day in…

Choosing a React UI component library for an enterprise app usually comes down to a short list. Four names come up again and again: ReExt, which brings the Ext JS framework into React; Syncfusion, with its broad Essential Studio suite;…

An enterprise dashboard isn't a page of pretty charts. It's where operations managers, finance teams and analysts work all day: scanning numbers, filtering data, drilling into records and acting on what they find. That puts very different demands on the…

Data-heavy React apps rarely start with five UI vendors. They get there one reasonable decision at a time. The base component library has no serious grid, so the team adds one. The grid vendor's charts don't fit, so a chart…

In most large organizations, every React app has its own UI stack. One team uses MUI with AG Grid, another uses Ant Design with Recharts, a third has a homegrown table, and the legacy app still runs on Ext JS.…

Ask a React team what they use for UI, and you'll usually hear the name of a react ui component library: a set of buttons, inputs, dialogs, and tables they assemble into screens. For many apps, that's exactly right. But…