Building Dynamic Web Forms with the Ext JS Framework
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If you do any programming in JavaScript for the web, you've probably heard about a number of third-party libraries that can make your life a lot easier. This five-part series will introduce you to Ext JS, one of the more versatile frameworks. You'll be amazed at how much you can accomplish with it.
Introduction
As you know, the Web is by far the largest development platform available nowadays. This growing phenomenon is particularly evident in the terrain dominated by third-party JavaScript libraries. Prototype, Scriptaculous, Yahoo! User Interface, jQuery, and so forth, are all the preferred toolkits of many professional web developers when it comes to constructing full-featured JavaScript applications and creating solid user interfaces.
However, there’s one particular package that stands out from the rest, due to its solid capacity for building professional front-ends and interactive web widgets by way of clean, object-oriented JavaScript code. If you haven’t heard about it yet, you're about to enter the world of the Ext JS framework. It is a piece of software that offers a great variety of predefined web components, including forms and web page grids, message boxes and hierarchical tree menus, which can be incorporated into any existing web application in a few minutes.
Indeed, the number of pre-built web widgets that are bundled with the Ext JS package can be pretty overwhelming, particularly when you only need to incorporate, for instance, a couple of dynamic message boxes and a simple contact form to your web site, and nothing else.
Therefore, in this series of comprehensive articles, I’m going to provide you with a quick guide to constructing different kinds of dynamic web forms by using the JavaScript API offered by the Ext JS framework.
Ranging from creating simple contact forms, to building full-featured HTML editors, by the end of this series you’ll be armed with the required background to start including this complete arsenal of interactive components in your own web site --without suffering premature hair loss!
Now, let’s learn together how to build dynamic web forms by means of the Ext JS library. Let’s go!
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