Practical Ext JS Projects with Gears

Discover Ext JS, one of today’s most powerful and highly regarded JavaScript frameworks, with perhaps the best set of GUI widgets around, and a whole host of components that make developing client–side applications a breeze. Using a pragmatic approach, you’ll dissect seven full–fledged applications, covering

• How Ext JS allows you to create these applications with a slick user interface with a minimum of effort
• How the other parts of Ext JS aside from the GUI widgets provide many of the capabilities modern applications need, such as Ajax and data mechanisms
• How other technologies such as Gears can be brought in to make the applications more powerful

• Get an understanding of one of today’s hottest JavaScript frameworks and libraries, Ext JS.
• Develop interesting Web 2.0 “front ends,” RIAs (rich Internet applications), and more.
• Create a number of applications from the projects or pragmatic case studies that the author gives you.
• Create an organizer, timekeeper, a code cabinet, and more.
• Get back to basics and back ends using a SQL workbench, Google Gears, and Ext BASIC.
• Pull it all together by designing a game using Ext JS.

Web application developers, senior project leads, and application architects.

1. Introducing Web Development with Ext JS
2. Widgets and Advanced Ext JS
3. Ext JS for a Busy Lifestyle: OrganizerExt
4. Making Project Management Cool: TimekeeperExt
5. A Place for Your Stuff: Code Cabinet Ext
6. When the Yellow Pages Just Isn’t Cool Enough: Local Business Search
7. Your Dad Had a Workbench, Now So Do You: SQL Workbench
8. All Work and No Play: Dueling Cards
9. Managing Your Finances: Finance Master