Ask ten developers whether React is a React JS framework or a library and you'll get a debate. The React team's own answer is clear: React is a library for building user interfaces. It renders components and manages their state,…

Most "best React frameworks" lists are written with marketing sites, blogs and consumer SaaS in mind: SEO, page speed, server rendering and edge deployment. Data-heavy business applications are different. They live behind a login, users keep them open all day,…

In an enterprise Ext JS application, the layout system decides how fast screens render, how well they adapt to different devices, and how easy the codebase is to maintain. Get layouts right and the rest of the UI falls into…

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…