New Release: Sencha Ext JS 7.2 GA

We started off CY 2020 with the release of Ext JS 7.1 and have been pacing nicely with our quarterly releases. The entire Sencha product team is excited to announce the release of version 7.2 for Ext JS, ExtAngular, ExtReact, and ExtWebComponents!

The emphasis of this release is on product feature enhancements related to the quality and performance of the UI Components, which can assist you in your web development. Continue reading to find out what’s new on Sencha Ext JS 7.2 GA.

Highlights

Significant improvements to the Ext JS Modern and Classic toolkits.

We’ve placed special emphasis on bringing innumerable improvements to our market-leading Grid, Pivot Grid, and Locked Grid components.

• Grid features are specifically improved for:
  • Grouping Grid
  • Cell editor
  • Grid view
  • Grid Drag and Drop
  • Stateful Grid
  • Summary section
  • Tagfield in grid editors

• Component and field improvements include:
  • General field
  • Tag field
  • Date field
  • Data binding
  • Combobox field improvements
  • Stateful
  • And more…

• Some more noteworthy improvements include:
  • Window improvements
  • Router improvements
  • Improvements to Sencha Architect and Sencha Cmd
  • Significant number of fiddle examples added for ease of use

ExtReact, ExtAngular and ExtWebComponents have also inherited all of the awesome improvements brought to Ext JS by 7.2, as well as:

• Grid features are specifically improved for:
  • Significant improvements to the web components runtime
  • Improvements with the Sencha Webpack plugin and without
  • Improved ExtReact template for instant creation
  • Improved the ease of use with EWC one file configuration without Webpack
  • Many fiddle examples to help you develop faster.

New Component Examples

Configuring Sencha Grid in the framework of choice is simple. Find more angles and examples on how to configure the Grid in our revised API Docs.

Find more data rich Modern and Classic toolkit examples, like the new examples for the trees:

And the tree list and tree store:

Web Components Examples

Sencha is laser focused on providing more compelling and exciting examples where you can copy and run with the configurations—check out some of our new plug-and-play examples below.

Use the DOM apis with Ext JS web components, like copy to clipboard.

Use the DOM apis to fetch the user agent and select values in a form field.

Use a tree as an index with custom styling and tree filtering:

What’s Next?

Through each release, we’re committed to continually delivering quality improvements and enhanced usability to the Ext JS Modern and Classic toolkits while also adding features that improve your productivity.

Our engineering team has started on Ext JS 7.3 containing many quality, performance and usability enhancements. The goal is to continually listen to feedback and be transparent in our product roadmap plans.

In the meantime, don’t forget to sign up for our What’s New in Ext JS 7.2 webinar where we’ll cover all of the enhancements introduced by 7.2, and answer questions about future releases.

Getting Started

Our goal is to make our product easier and better to use. Get started with 7.2 today.

• Getting Started with Ext JS for JavaScript Developers
• Getting Started with ExtWebComponents (a platform-agnostic development method)
• Using React UI Components in Your Application with ExtReact
• Using Angular UI Components in Your Application with ExtAngular

Upgrade to Ext JS 7.2

The free to use Ext JS Upgrade Adviser tool helps identify code changes required to migrate to the latest Ext JS version. Give that a try!

Try Ext JS 7.2

We invite you to try out Ext JS 7.2 today! The trial experience is simple and you can get started with your first application in a few easy steps.

• Download the Ext JS 7.2 30-day free trial
• Read the Getting Started with Ext JS Guide
• View Ext JS Kitchen Sink Examples