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What’s New in Ext JS 8.0
April 6, 2026 14251 Views
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Ext JS 8.0 is here. We’re excited to announce the General Availability Launch of Sencha Ext JS 8.0 - a major release delivering modern enhancements, improved performance, and new capabilities across our industry-leading JavaScript framework with over 140 pre-integrated UI…

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How to Use the Ext JS Grid in React: Setup, Columns, Editing and Grouping

Set up the Ext JS grid in React with ReExt, then add typed columns, store-backed data, inline editing, grouping and summaries. Full code included. The Ext JS grid has handled data-heavy enterprise screens for years: typed columns, store-backed data, inline…

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Understanding Ext JS Layouts and Containers: An Introduction (Classic vs. Modern)

Building complex, responsive, and data-intensive Web applications requires a solid layout engine. In Ext JS, the layout system is the backbone of your Application UI. It automatically handles component sizing, positioning, component nesting, and dynamic window resizing, eliminating the need…

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AI-Driven Test Grading with Ext JS, Node.js, and OpenAI: A Secure Enterprise Architecture

Learn how to build an AI-driven test grading system with Ext JS, Node.js, MySQL, and OpenAI using secure API architecture, deterministic scoring, and human oversight. Automated assessment has become a key capability for modern EdTech platforms, but evaluating open-ended responses…

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Sencha AI Just Got a Lot Bigger: One Chatbot, Every Sencha Product

Sencha's AI assistant has grown from a focused Ext JS helper into a product-aware chatbot covering the whole Sencha suite. Here's what's new and why it's great news for developers. When we introduced the Sencha AI Coding Companion back in…

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Building High-Performance Real-Time Operational Dashboards with Ext JS and React

Real-time operational dashboards are no longer simply reporting interfaces. In logistics, fleet management, supply chain operations, financial services, and other data-intensive environments, they are part of the operational decision-making system. A modern dashboard may need to display thousands of records…

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Async/await with Ext JS

Probably one of the most appreciated features of the latest versions of JavaScript is Promises, and in particular their use through the new language keywords async/await introduced with ECMAScript 2017. Promises To simplify it a lot, Promises are a standardized…

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Sencha IDE Plugins – JetBrains 6.0.18 Is Here

JetBrains 2026.2 just shipped. So did we. Sencha's JetBrains plugin is an Integrated Development Environment tool that creates a confluence between Sencha Frameworks and JetBrains software. This integration comes in the form of code completion, inspection, and suggestion, while seamlessly…

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Building Responsive, Data-Driven Enterprise Applications with JavaScript

In enterprise software, responsiveness is no longer a nice-to-have. Users expect the same application to perform smoothly whether they are working at a desktop with a 4K monitor, reviewing operations from a tablet, or checking key metrics on a smartphone…

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What’s New in ReExt 1.2

Modern teams are under constant pressure to ship faster without sacrificing UX quality, maintainability, or enterprise-grade capabilities. That’s easy to say, but much harder to do when your application needs advanced grids, data-heavy interfaces, mobile readiness, accessibility, and long-term support.…