Ext Designer Released: Watch the Screencast!
April 22, 2010 | Abraham Elias
We are very excited to announce that we've released Ext Designer, our desktop application for rapidly generating Ext JS interfaces. Ext Designer is a full cross-platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux) desktop application written completely in Ext JS. We’ve been hard at work on Ext Designer, and we know you’ll find it worth the wait. Download a trial today.
We actually had a soft release last month on Twitter in order to quash some early bugs before announcing everywhere. Since the initial release we have had over 100 bug fixes and we're now at 43,000 downloads and counting!
Who Ext Designer is For
Ext Designer works on two levels--as a prototyping tool as well as a code generation tool. Particularly for complex UIs, it saves tens of hours of development time that are normally spent tweaking layouts and making sure that nested elements play well together. Best of all, (and unlike most prototyping tools), it produces clean, object oriented code that looks like the code you would have written yourself.
We think that Ext Designer will be a great tool for both single developers and teams working together to build applications. The drag and drop interface can be used by anyone involved in the design of an application. A project can easily be started by a business analyst, passed to a user interface designer, and finally handed off to the development team to be enhanced with functionality—saving time every step of the way. We've even used Ext Designer to build parts of Ext Designer!
Features
The main screen of Ext Designer allows developers and designers to assemble layouts by dragging and dropping components together. They can quickly change the layout of a specific component, or use the inspector to manipulate more detailed properties.
In addition to components and the visual side of an application, there are also several new ways to incorporate and configure data stores. These data stores can then be bound directly to components like DataGrids and Trees. Whether your data is in JSON, XML, a simple Javascript array, or an Ext Direct connection, Ext Designer can help you build a data store for it faster than ever.
Once the application design is finished, code can be exported on a component-by-component basis, as either JSON or Javascript classes. Again, this code is still Javascript, so it can easily be extended with the IDE of your choice.
Interface
Those who have seen early previews of Ext Designer are in for a nice surprise. We’ve completely redesigned the application for final release, giving it a whole new level of polish. In addition to a better look and feel, the new product chrome looks separate and distinct from the actual interfaces you are creating, which we think will prove very helpful.
All in all, we have truly put our hearts into Ext Designer and we hope you'll find it as useful as we have. We will be hosting some webinars soon, but download Ext Designer today and try it out for yourself!
Screencast
Check out our screencast. Watch as we create a basic app using data, then preview it in Aptana in about 4 minutes.
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Alexander Ilyin
3 years agoSoundtrack is A.W.E.S.O.M.E !!!
Steffen
3 years agoCool music video!
Shea Frederick (VinylFox)
3 years agoGreat video
Jacob Andresen
3 years agoimpressive.
ray_iceman
3 years agoAwesome. My first impression is that this will be a wonderful and useful tool. I am just downloading and will take a look.
Great job guys. Thanks.
lruiz (oracleruiz)
3 years agoI was waiting for that!
Thanks a lot Ext Team developers!!
Vinny Carpenter
3 years agoThe Designer looks awesome. When will there be a version for GXT?
vizh
3 years agoIt’s too expensive for such a simple tool. May be $50 or $30.
Rupert
3 years agoAmazing Tool. Thank you verry mutch. Realy a greate tool
adistasi
3 years agoLooks awesome.
There will be also a release for GXT?
Tim
3 years agoNot impressed. Still a long way from a true RAD tool like Morfik
Jay Garcia
3 years agoLooks great guys!
Bob
3 years agoLooks great!
I downloaded it and am trying to use it; Where’s the Tutorial?!
...a step-by-step of a sample project Tutorial would be great!
I’ll probably stumble around w/o a Tutorial.
WeWant
3 years agoWe want also inline code editor!!!
Ling Chen
3 years agoThis is great. Can’t wait to give a demo to our team on it’s capabilities.
Juan Mendes
3 years agoI love it. Looks like it can be a real help when prototyping (for UI designers and BAs) and for starter code for developers. @WeWant: I don’t really care for an inline code editor, if it saves me some time getting started and looking up cfg options, then I can do the real coding in my IDE of choice.
Brent Carlson
3 years agoNice layout tool, but way too expensive fora partial solution. It is pricing itself towards Morfik, Magic or Alpha 5 where you get a complete development tool.
Ext Designer should cost around $50 because it is only a designer.
Brent
Jesse
3 years agoWay too expensive!!! This version should be between $30 and $50 for the features offered.
Shoeb Hasan
3 years agoI like the tool. It will save my hours to design a site. But why is it too expensive?
drabslab
3 years agoVery nice
but financially out of reach
Ryan
3 years agoDitto on the price.
Loiane
3 years agoSoundtrack is A.W.E.S.O.M.E !!! [2]
And the tool is really great!
Petro
3 years agoVery interesting! I really like the IDE independence. I switch between VS and Eclipse depending on the client project I’m working on. The last thing I need is ANOTHER IDE to learn or get locked into. That said, I like the simplicity and power of this tool. I’m viewing the demo right now and I can see how this can help streamline my customers’ cryptic specs (fields inside fieldsets, etc) or at least minimize the tinkering of configs in code for a desired result. I don’t mind the price, if it will save me a few hours of tedious work - which I think it will.
Michael
3 years agothe soundtrack ist great !!! - like the tool !!
Castle
3 years ago??????
Umang
3 years agoGood tool like it!!
Niko Ni
3 years agogreat tool and nice background music track
RB
3 years agoWould love to see a tutorial that wasn’t moving at warp speed…but cool demo nonetheless! I would hope the tutorial, when provided, discusses the best practices to using the tool in an ongoing project where original designs need to be tweaked after the fact. In other words, should we attempt to leave the exported JS classes untouched and write implementation code in separate files, so that we can go back to the Designer and tweak the layout code without overwriting the developers code? Sure would love some guidance along these lines. I think this tool is going to be a huge time saver down the road…but I also think we need some help to smooth out the learning curve. Thanks
Stju
3 years agoAnd how many minutes to write serverside DIRECT code
Anyway nice
Jonathan
3 years agoFor older ExtJS fans such as ex COBOL programmers like myself can we have a remix featuring something like Julie London - Fly Me To The Moon?
xgwang
3 years agothis is a good idea
bee
3 years agoIf it has component event handler and we could code it directly within the editor, it would be PERFECT! For now, it’s just a nice form designer. I wish it could be as advance as VB or Delphi. :D
iPad fan
3 years agoTerrific, this one is a great and wonderful discovery.This Ext Designer allows developers and designers to assemble layouts, which is a great help.
Nice one!
Mikhus
3 years agoLet me first to tell that it looks great and really it’s very useful!
From other side I wish to use it for app interfaces prototype creation. But I found that a lot of components are not available in designer. For example, where are charts?
rainsmith
3 years agoit’s cool! BUT it has Big problem that language-support is so Bad,especially in Chinese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!
ctr1hill
3 years agoI love the tool but I have to agree on the price…...make it cheaper. Also, can you include the ability to cut and paste code? Or import code?
Avinash
3 years agoAwesome , I like this
Alfred
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Michael
3 years agoHow about a download link to the Project files?
Surya Adi Sapoetra
3 years agogreat tools, it will very helpfull,...
iLike
3 years agoIndonesia..!!! Likes..!!
Luis
3 years agoSince I began my degree project using ExtJs my conception of web programming have evolved.
Now, with this app the ExtJs develop will be more easy, fast and fun. It’s awesome!
neeke
3 years agothat’s great!!!
bi9foot178
3 years agoapp the ExtJs develop will be more easy, fast and fun. It’s awesome!
rath
3 years agoImpressive screencast.
Do anyone know the name of soundtrack which is embed on screencast? awesome.
Blue
3 years agoDitto on the soundtrack - I want it! Where can I get it! Love the designer, too.
Jack
3 years agoThanks very much, good idea
sanjaybh
3 years agobrilliant work….
Ben
3 years agotoo expensive for a too simple tool
FindMyBacklinks
3 years agoAwesome video…
ninchenx
3 years agoHi,
what is the name of the album? Does anyone know?
And of course, I think this app is just what I am looking for.
techtigre
3 years agoGreat work EXT team. But I will have to agree that it seems a bit overpriced.
Doan Tang
3 years agoThis is good tool for my job, thanks EXT team devevopment. I will download and try it:D:D:D:D
guru plueprint
3 years agoReally cool presentation and software. This will help non-progammers get involved within my Company
David Mcmillian
3 years agoOK good to see- informed comments are always sweet! Peace.
Brendan
3 years agoGood god it costs an arm and a leg, and a Microsoft Office. I wish I could afford it. :’(
Webstandard-Blog
3 years agoLooks great!
nvkudva
3 years agoHi I was trying ext designer in windows 7 64bit. But it didn’t work.
Any possible solution?
Indroniel Deb Roy
3 years agoGreat application to start working on ext… Awaiting for more tutorial/help material to work more efficiently with designer…
ajaxuser
3 years agoDo you have trial version available for download
Mike
3 years agoIt’s way too overpriced - being just a UI designer, not a full-blown IDE, it should be priced at $40-$50. For a fraction of $299 I can get Coda and just type out the JS and test right there. I mean, Dreamweaver CS5 is $299, and it is a full-blow design & development suite, for crying out loud!!!
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2 years agoin my opinion, this is really a great program and video presentation. This will add knowledge to myself and my friends.
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yellow
2 years agoThank you for your post!
Trudy
2 years agoI can’t beileve you’re not playing with me—that was so helpful.
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