Extensions allow developers to access valuable features and explore beyond Sencha's usual frameworks. Thus, they are a very important part of the Sencha platform. At Sencha, we are investing to improve our ecosystem of extensions and I wanted to share…

Today Sencha launches try.sencha.com to simplify developer adoption, accelerate learning, and to allow developers to contribute and share knowledge. “Thousands of Sencha examples to learn, inspire, and experiment.” At the heart of every developer platform is lots and lots of…

It wasn't too long ago that web developers were struggling with poor implementations of JavaScript timers in desktop browsers. John Resig's survey of desktop browser timers at the end of 2007 showed serious problems with timer resolution and/or timer consistency…

The Sencha.io photo sharing example shows you how to use Sencha.io, the Sencha cloud service, with your Sencha Touch 2 mobile apps. The app consists of two modules: The photo module allows a user to manage photos that are synced…

In a previous article, we provided an introduction to the Sencha GXT 3 charting library. However, there is far more to the charting library than was previously covered. This article discusses the more intermediate and advanced features that you can…

In this article, we will review several factors that affect performance of an Ext JS application. Network latency which affects initial startup time heavily, but also data store load time. CSS processing. JavaScript execution. DOM manipulation. Network Latency To minimize…

Altus is a self-funded products and consultancy company targeting the financial services sector. We are based in the historic city of Bath, and have about 40 members on staff. We have used Ext JS for our last three products; two…

Guest Blog Post: Samuel Asher Rivello of Rivello Multimedia Consulting (RMC). For readers who are new to Sencha but coming from a Flex background, this guest blog post provides useful context and reference to familiarize yourself with how Flex concepts…

We’ve been hard at work on Sencha.io, but it’s been a while since we’ve shared with the community updates on what we’ve been doing. So, we thought we’d take a moment to update folks on what’s new in the world…