Over the last few months, I’ve been building (and reading about building) a number of applications using the excellent ExtJS 4.2.0. I thought it might be fun/instructive to do something of a short “walkthrough” of the process of building an app…so that’s what I’m going to do :).

In the next series of posts, I’m going to build an MVC-style ExtJS 4.2.0 app, walking through the code and strategy at each step along the way. I hope that it will be entertaining/instructive to code along with me.

The App

The app is not going to be complicated, but I am going to try to hit some major areas of functionality that are common to developing ExtJS 4 apps. While I can’t promise that every bit of functionality will “fit” your real app’s specific needs, I do promise to avoid ridiculous, over-simplistic and unrealistic examples. My intention is to share my experiences from building real apps, not to teach you about every possible aspect of the ExtJS 4 library, regardless of how relevant it may or may not be to what we’re building. Besides, I don’t know every possible aspect of the library anyway, so I would be of less-than-complete help in that More >