Highlights of Virtual SenchaCon 2022
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 […]
