***(This book has been replaced by a new one from the same authors titled Learning Ext JS 3.2 and you should order that one and not this one)
I’ve been learning ExtJS now for a couple months and it’s great to see someone has written a book for it. I just bought it and downloaded the E-Book version of it and from what I can tell it looks great. I’ll post a more detailed review later, but for now, here is where you can get it.
(Note: 2/11/09: I love this book. I still plan on writing a more detailed review, but for now, I thought I’d put a brief comment. I carry it around with me every where go (almost everywhere). It has great examples and great explanations -Peter)
As I’m learning ExtJS I plan on publishing the things I figure out. For those that don’t know, ExtJS is a very rich JavaScript library that gives you all kinds of capabilities that work cross browsers. Trees, Grid’s, Panels, Layouts and all kind of stuff. For an idea of the kinds of things you can do, check out the demos at there site at this URL: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/samples.html.
It’s pretty amazing the kinds of things that can be done with just client side JavaScript. At the core of ExtJS are some very useful JavaScript methods. In order to take advantage of the more sophisticated features, it’s helpful to know the basics first. In this article, I plan on going through a simple example that will ultimately product html that looks like the following.
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Amazon.com: Learning Ext JS
