What is Reddit's opinion of Ext JS?

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It's Ext JS, in case you're wondering. I can spot that default blue theme and gradient from a mile a way.

Another example of Ext JS usage is a really cool crime mapping site.

ExtJS? http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs

It's a JS framework that reads data from Json or XML and displays widgets that looks a bit like windows 7.

It's free for open source software and has a lot of examples: http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.1.0-gpl/examples/

The only downside is that some people don't look it's windowsian theme but you could change the CSS if you're serious about it.

i don't see Sencha Extjs mentioned yet. At the moment i'm working on a single page project with alot of different views and deep-linking. It has a real good modelling and data handling system. Also it's javascript so you can change everything.

Ex: you define a store, which has a model and a (ajax)proxy which has a url defined. Then you load the store and after that you can apply filters etc. and hang the store on a grid.

Version 5 has just been released (kitchen sink). I only have experience with v4. But new additions are touch support, MVVM and other things.

There is also a Sencha architect which can be used to develop in a WYSIWYG style.

only downside, if it's a commercial project you will need to buy a license though.

I have a friend who's a big fan of ExtJS for building desktop-like apps in browser Javascript with a minimum of fuss and foofaraw. I personally can't stand how much boilerplate there is in there, and that it's a paid product.

I'd probably try Django+Tastypie as a REST backend and Ember as an application frontend, but that seems like a lot of learning overhead.

You're posting a screenshot of Excel, or similar. Are you looking for a web-based solution to this? Or just a spreadsheet? Or...?

Possible Solutions

• Just use Excel and put the spreadsheet somewhere where everyone can get to it
• Use Google Docs (same as Excel basically, but online)
• Look at ExtJS -- there are examples of similar things

Nothing about CSS or JS technologies dictates licensing. You're convoluting their plain-text distribution method with licensing.

Here are some examples of JS which requires a paid license for legal usage by a commercial entity. http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/ http://fineuploader.com/purchase_form.html

It's a very common pattern.

From what I understand it is still FOSS

and you can download it at the bottom of this page

The command line tool is proprietary but free.

If you mean this, then that also uses Ext JS. For UI designers who like to fool around with Javascript, it's quite a popular tool.

i would like to suggest extjs for this task http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs

their gui editor is a nice time saver: http://www.sencha.com/products/architect/

i use both in fairly big projects and so far everything works.

You could use a library like ExtJS but you would have to write the backend in Django and output JSON with a REST-like interface, and the front-end in JavaScript (MVC framework). It's a bit difficult to use but it's pretty.

Be sure to check Sencha's(Extjs creators) web site, it contains a lot of examples and tutorials. I've worked with Extjs for a year, and it's really nice for the right purposes. Ext is really extensive so be sure you're familiar with all the features, and style of Ext, before you start writing production code.