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What’s New in Ext JS 8.0
April 6, 2026 14161 Views
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Ext JS 8.0 is here. We’re excited to announce the General Availability Launch of Sencha Ext JS 8.0 - a major release delivering modern enhancements, improved performance, and new capabilities across our industry-leading JavaScript framework with over 140 pre-integrated UI…

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Data Grids

How to Use the Ext JS Grid in React: Setup, Columns, Editing and Grouping

Set up the Ext JS grid in React with ReExt, then add typed columns, store-backed data, inline editing, grouping and summaries. Full code included. The Ext JS grid has handled data-heavy enterprise screens for years: typed columns, store-backed data, inline…

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Enterprise React

React Data Grid: The Complete 2026 Guide for Enterprise Apps

Almost every business application eventually becomes a grid. Orders, invoices, trades, tickets, inventory, patients, shipments: the data your users care about most usually lands in rows and columns, and they spend hours a day working in that view. That makes…

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Classic and Modern Toolkits

Understanding Ext JS Layouts and Containers: An Introduction (Classic vs. Modern)

Building complex, responsive, and data-intensive Web applications requires a solid layout engine. In Ext JS, the layout system is the backbone of your Application UI. It automatically handles component sizing, positioning, component nesting, and dynamic window resizing, eliminating the need…

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AI Test Grading

AI-Driven Test Grading with Ext JS, Node.js, and OpenAI: A Secure Enterprise Architecture

Learn how to build an AI-driven test grading system with Ext JS, Node.js, MySQL, and OpenAI using secure API architecture, deterministic scoring, and human oversight. Automated assessment has become a key capability for modern EdTech platforms, but evaluating open-ended responses…

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Enterprise AI Analytics

Secure Enterprise AI Analytics in JavaScript: A Leadership Guide to Data Governance, Compliance and Embedded Analytics

Enterprise analytics is entering a new phase. Business users increasingly expect applications to answer questions in natural language, surface anomalies automatically, explain trends, and provide real-time insights without forcing users to leave the application. For engineering leaders, however, the challenge…

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Sencha AI

Sencha AI Just Got a Lot Bigger: One Chatbot, Every Sencha Product

Sencha's AI assistant has grown from a focused Ext JS helper into a product-aware chatbot covering the whole Sencha suite. Here's what's new and why it's great news for developers. When we introduced the Sencha AI Coding Companion back in…

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Ext JS Performance

Mastering Ext JS Performance: Scaling Data Grids from 500 to 1,000,000+ Records

Enterprise applications rarely fail because a grid cannot render a few hundred records. The real challenge begins when that same application evolves into a business-critical platform handling 50,000, 500,000, or more than 1 million records—while users still expect fast search,…

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AI coding agents

Building Custom AI Coding Agents with ACP, MCP & React

From AI Code Completion to Autonomous Software Engineering Artificial intelligence is changing how software is written, maintained, tested, and modernised. Yet the most consequential shift is not simply that AI can generate code faster. It is that AI systems are…

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Enterprise Applications

Generating Live Ext JS Database Applications with Indi Engine AI: A Practical Architecture for Enterprise Modernization

Modernizing enterprise applications is rarely a matter of replacing an old interface with a new one. The deeper challenge is preserving the data structures, business rules, permissions, workflows, and operational behavior that have accumulated around enterprise databases over many years…