If the upcoming 3.0 release of the full ExtJS library wasn’t enough to get you excited, yesterday’s announcement of the release of a new lightweight core library, Ext Core, should be enough to get your pulse up. Ext Core looks to fill the void that exists between a full Ext application (basically a desktop class application built in JavaScript) and more traditional web sites with multiple pages and fairly simple needs.
The full Ext library is a bit heavy for basic web sites so, up until now developers have had to go with other JavaScript libraries to fill this need (I’ve generally stuck with jQuery). The release of Ext Core, however, allows developers to utilize their knowledge of and experience with Ext in places where it was otherwise not possible.
And if you are worried about licensing, worry no more:
Ext Core is released under a permissive MIT license – there is no cost to use Ext Core – it’s free for everyone.
And in traditional Ext style, the code is beautifully-written (at least what I’ve been able to peruse so far) and well-documented.
In my opinion, Ext has been overlooked as of late because of the much-publicized licensing debacle. I still consider it the best JavaScript library out there for writing desktop class web application. I hope that this release will get it some much deserved support from the larger web development community.
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Hi Nate,
I wanted to thank you for kind words on Ext Core. I am glad I got the blood flowing. If you have any feedback, suggestions or comments, please feel free to send me an email.
Hi,
I agree with you about Ext. Before Ext, I worked with JQuery, Dojo and YUI, but something is not good for me.
Now I’m very happy with Ext, and my project ExtMap is evolving with Ext :)
Alper.
I saw ExtMap the other day. Nice work!