Most comparisons of JavaScript libraries look at one category at a time: the best grid, the best chart library, the best form library. Enterprise UIs don't work one category at a time. The same screen shows a grid of orders,…

Every front end accumulates JavaScript libraries. A date library for one feature, a second one added by another team, a grid library, two chart libraries, an HTTP client the platform no longer needs, utility packages for things browsers now do…

Data grids, charts and dashboards are where most business applications earn their keep, and where the choice of JavaScript libraries matters most. Pick well and a team ships a reporting screen in days. Pick poorly and the same team spends…

"Should we use a JavaScript library or a framework?" sounds like a terminology question. For enterprise apps, it's a strategy question. The answer decides who designs your application's structure, how many separate tools your teams have to choose and keep…

Every Ext JS application starts tidy. Five years and forty screens later, you have a util folder nobody dares touch, three grids that are 90% identical, and a build that only one person understands. None of this is Ext JS's…

Grids are where enterprise Ext JS applications live, and they are also where performance problems show up first. A screen that felt instant with 200 rows becomes sluggish with 20,000, and users blame the framework. In practice, the slowdown almost…

Many of today's most important business applications started life in the era of the JavaScript library: when teams picked jQuery for the DOM, YUI or Dojo for widgets, and Ext JS for rich, desktop-like interfaces in the browser. Those applications…

"What's the best JavaScript framework?" has no single answer, because frameworks are built for different jobs. React, Vue and Svelte shine for consumer apps and design-led products. Angular brings structure to large teams. But data-intensive applications, such as trading platforms,…

Choosing a React JS framework is the first decision in enterprise application development, not the last. Once a React app has to serve hundreds of users, dozens of developers and several years of change, the questions that matter are architectural:…