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I've ben working on an extjs app for the past few years. My experience is slightly different. I've found development actually speeded up. The extjs components a
by Joeri 15y ago
I've ben working on an extjs app for the past few years. My experience is slightly different. I've found development actually speeded up. The extjs components are pretty mature, which is probably part of the reason. Benefits so far are the ones listed in the article, and also a structurally lower cost to supporting different browsers (even ie6), and a much easier time validating the security architecture, because of the reduced surface between client and server. Oh, and our users are very enthusiastic about the improved usability of our apps. They keep asking when we'll move over our older apps to the new architecture.
- prateekdayal 15y agoI think the development speed goes up once you have all the basic infrastructure in place (in our case it was getting jasmine and other testing frameworks and code to create different kinds of listings etc).
- voidfiles 15y agoAren't you worried about speed? When something like Ext.js has to make all that DOM things slow down, right? Is that not a problem?
- frobozz 15y agoIn IE, yes. I work with an exceptionally complex ext.js application (not develop, I'm just a user of it). In IE you can click a button, make a cup of tea, and come back to see it finish working. In Chrome and Firefox, there's nothing wrong with the performance of the client.
- dan_b 15y agoMy last project was a very complex ExtJS single-page app, being used on low-spec PCs running IE7. It's still pretty snappy.
- Egregore 15y agoExtJS has one major disadvantage - documentation is also done in ExtJS so it is not indexed by google and it's difficult to search for.