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Developers often find creating React apps difficult due to a vast array of build tools along with a ton of configuration files and dependencies. React is a JavaScript library established by Facebook that is frequently referred to as a frontend JavaScript framework. In addition to this, it is a tool for creating user interface components. It is fascinating because instead of directly altering the browser’s DOM, React constructs a virtual DOM in memory and performs all necessary manipulations there before modifying the browser DOM. However, one disadvantage of working with React is that it lacks pre-built components. As a result, React developers must either create these components from scratch or rely on the community. One of the hassle-free ways to deal with the issues underlying React is to use Facebook’s command-line tool: create React app. But if you are in the search of a perfect solution to all of React’s problems, you are in the right place. Sencha’s GRUI is a revolutionary tool that features high performance bundled with 100+ data grid features that ensure faster creation of data-intensive web applications. Whether you are a complete newbie or a seasoned developer, GRUI by Sencha is going to be the only tool you’ll ever need to succeed in creating React apps. Read on to find out more about create React app, GRUI by Sencha, and what makes it the ideal companion for React developers. What is Create React App? Setting up build tools like Babel and Webpack is required while creating a React application. Because React’s JSX syntax is a language that the browser doesn’t comprehend, certain build tools are necessary. That’s where create React app comes in, it helps you create applications that are compliant and supported by React framework. The beauty of this tool lies in the fact that it allows you to focus all of your energy on building apps rather than on building configurations. This results in increased productivity and saves developers from needless hassle. How to Get Started with Building Your GRUI App? Building apps on GRUI by Sencha is a breeze. There is no need for additional plugins and Sencha’s GRUI integrates seamlessly within your existing framework. This process can be easily categorized into 5 small steps. npx create-react-app –template minimal my-app Run cd my-app Run npm add @sencha/sencha-grid Building your own component by loading up the pre-generated app component and replacing its app source with: import React from “react”;import { SenchaGrid, Column } from “@sencha/sencha-grid”;import “@sencha/sencha-grid/dist/themes/grui.css”; export default class App extends React.Component {render() {const data = [{ col1: “value1”, col2: “data1”, col3: 1.01 },{ col1: “value2”, col2: “data2”, col3: 1.02 },{ col1: “value3”, col2: “data3”, col3: 1.03 },]; return ();}} Initiating the app by running: npm startSetting license by visiting GRUI and finally adding:SenchaGrid.setLicense(“”) How Convenient is It to Create a Column Editor in Sencha’s GRUI? Sencha’s GRUI is a high-performance react grid for react applications that makes it dead easy to create a column editor. In addition to this, it features extensive documentation which makes it a child’s play to diagnose and troubleshoot problems during installation or integration.  In order to create a column editor you have to type in the following React typescript: /*** 1. Define the imports*/import React, { Component } from “react”;import EditorProps from “../EditorProps”;import IEditor from “./IEditor”; /*** 2. […]

React is a popular open-source JavaScript library that allows you to build complex UIs using a component model. Those components are expressed using JSX, a React extension to JavaScript language syntax that helps structure component rendering using a familiar syntax. Fig. 1 Example Sencha grid using JSX Figure 1 is an example of a Sencha Grid for React being defined using JSX on the left.On the right, you see the rendered output of that JSX. It is a complex data grid that includes several columns, groupings, filtering, sorting, and various other features. Let us try and understand them in more detail. 1. What is Sencha’s Grid for React (GRUI)? What is new in the 1.1 release? In 2021, Sencha released version 1.0 of “Sencha Grid for React” (also called GRUI). It has all the power and capabilities of Sencha’s Ext Grid but has been rebuilt from the ground up. GRUI’s modernized code base is optimized for a very small footprint so that applications load quickly and seamlessly fit in with the rest of the npm React ecosystem; essentially, you install and get going. The idea was to make it as easy as possible to integrate Grid into your React applications. No other plugins or configuration were to be required. In the short amount of time since GRUI’s initial release, a lot of feedback has come in from our customers and early adopters. Hence, we released the second version of GRUI (version 1.1) with additional features. This release includes Tree Grid, a powerful grid capability that allows you to display hierarchical data. GRUI 1.1 can handle grouping, sorting, and filtering and has all the other Tree Grid capabilities that you have come to expect from the Ext version of the Sencha Grid. GRUI 1.1 also includes: locking grid, spreadsheet selection model, multi-level grouping, and several other filters and features. Additionally, an out-of-the-box Dark Theme is available with GRUI 1.1. 2. What is a typical React application with GRUI? Let’s learn more about GRUI by building a realistic React application. This simple example uses: Material UI, a very popular open-source component library for React FusionCharts, a commercial enterprise charting library GRUI, a commercial enterprise-grade data grid Fig.2 Example Sencha GRUI for REACT As shown in the above figure (Fig. 2), on the left-hand side we have the “VS” code, and on the right-hand side we have the sample application running in the browser. The stack used for building this application is: React 18 Material UI 5 FusionCharts and GRUI Grid 1.1 Fig. 3 – Example of FusionCharts integration to sample React Application Fig. 4 – Example of Tree Grid’s integration to sample React application 3. How can I recreate the sample? To briefly introduce the sample application, we created a simplified layout using Material UI with a tab panel. This includes: Big Data – a big-data grid from a Storybook example FusionCharts – example of a standard FusionCharts visualization Tree Grid + FusionCharts – Tree Grid integrated with FusionCharts and having them interact with each other Grid Flow Graph – a simpler grid with an interesting custom-column component that has a simple chart for each row Get access to an on-demand video for a step-by-step guide on how to create a complex React application here:SenchaCon 2022: Sencha’s Grid for Enterprise React Applications […]

Many people think application development is a huge task and that you have to spend a lot of money on the development of an application. However, the problem here is the inability of users to choose an ideal framework to support everything they need for the development. Using separate tools for each development task is what makes this process expensive. In this article, we will discuss how to save money on the development of an application regardless of its quality. Do you use pre-built UI components? Many JavaScript frameworks support component-based models. Unfortunately, the majority of them do not have any pre-built components. Therefore, JavaScript programmers have to either build components from the ground up or deal with components built by others. Sencha offers about 140 well-developed and tested UI components to speed up your development process. There, you can find all the necessary components to develop data-intensive online projects, including charts, exporters, grids, pivot grids, d3 adapters, and layouts. It saves money that needs to be spent on developers to build these components from scratch. Did you find an easy way to style the application? Styling the application is not an easy task for the developers. The reason is that they need to spend a considerable amount of time on manual coding to get the required format or style for the application. Apart from that, you will have to recruit separate designers to meet your requirements, which can be expensive. Sencha Themer provides you the ability to customize Ext JS, ExtAngular, as well as ExtReact applications and make them appear perfect. You can make your own themes with graphical tools rather than writing code. It’s simple to apply multiple color combos to different component states using the revolutionary color palette of Themer. The color palette depicts the base, text background, and font color with successively brighter and darker colors. Do you use the drag and drop option when it’s suitable? The drag and drop feature is one of the most powerful features to make the tasks of developers easier. Essentially, a drag operation is a click gesture on some UI element while the mouse button is held down and the mouse is moved. A drop operation occurs when the mouse button is released after the drag operation. Drag and drop functionality drastically reduces the time it takes to construct apps. It is done by replacing repeated lines of code with ready-to-use building pieces, such as react or the Angular components library. A smart drag-and-drop interface substantially decreases the learning curve when it comes to learning new technology. That’s a good thing when considering the quantity of different digital tools that many corporate personnel utilizes regularly. Sencha supports ‘Drag and Drop,’ making development easier and less time-consuming. It will also result in money savings. Do you have enough resources to quickly learn the framework you use? Learning new frameworks is not the easiest task. For example, Open-source frameworks don’t have dedicated teams to provide comprehensive documentation or learning materials. Therefore you have to go through various tutorials written by others, and ask questions on StackOverflow or Reddit to get your problems solved. When you use a product like sencha, they have very detailed documentation with step-by-step guides on everything from installation to deployment. Thus, sencha significantly reduces the time to […]

On April 12, 2022, we held the third Virtual SenchaCon, featuring a number of discussions on a wide array of topics, ranging from Sencha’s latest product GRUI to Serverless for JS Devs.The company has been organizing the conference virtually since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. Although last year’s con was held on two subsequent days, this year, the con was wrapped up in one day. A lot of things were discussed in these conferences, but one of the most vital sessions was conducted by Jason Cline, CTO of Celestial System. He defined in detail every aspect of Sencha’s latest product GRUI. The Sencha Con kicked off with an opening keynote from Kegan Blumenthal, General Manager of Sencha, himself. Let’s see what he said. Keynote Highlights Kegan Blumenthal, General Manager of Sencha, along with Sarina Dupont, and Eric Romoff, led the first session of SenchaCon 2022. In this session, Kegan shared the keynote and themes of the SenchaCon. Then, Sarina, Director, Product Management described the future road map, and Eric, Chief of Staff at Sencha, introduced us to the latest product of Sencha, which is GRUI. So let’s discuss the conference in more detail. Sencha Ext JS Explained by Kegan Kegan started the conference by describing the growth of Sencha over the past year. The company has expanded its community in that time and has also been recognized as a leader of G2 in the Across Community and User Ratings categories. According to Kegan, one of the key themes for Sencha in the year 2022 is to aim for low codes and high performance using low-code tooling. Kegan said, “Low code enables enterprises to create better experiences for the users with a low-code approach.” He also stated that the low-code approach would enable enterprises to create and deliver apps in record time. Low code also has the Architect feature, which is customizable and gives users drag-and-drop features. And using this, users can develop applications 20 times faster. The other key theme for Sencha 2022 was to focus more on the React community. The new grid component of Sencha, which is GRUI, is based on the XJS component and built from React. Kegan also shared the other solutions that support React, such as Froala, which is a rich-text editor; FusionCharts, a charting library; and Filestack, a file upload API. Later Kegan gave an overview of the evolution of JavaScript tooling. He emphasized that the Ext JS grid component is the number-one focus of Sencha. Sencha is doubling its efforts on the Ext JS data grid component to make it better. According to Kegan, the Ext JS UI library contains all the tools that users need to build an enterprise-level application. Considering the fact that app security has become a major concern among developers, Ext JS provides all the components built in house, reducing the scope for dependencies and vulnerabilities and thus making it a safer solution for app development. Other important news Kegan shared during the conference was that Ext JS OEM License is now rebranded as Ext JS Hub License. And at the end of his part of the conference, Kegan briefed attendees about the diversity of industries in which Sencha is growing, some Sencha case studies from the last year, a few white papers that Sencha published in […]