I recently had the experience of doing the same thing (a search bo box) with jquery and extjs. I found extjs to be buggy and overly plex. On the contrary, I found jquery to work very well and be very simple. I am wondering what are other people's experiences of using extjs. Does extjs plexity actually buy you something?
I recently had the experience of doing the same thing (a search bo box) with jquery and extjs. I found extjs to be buggy and overly plex. On the contrary, I found jquery to work very well and be very simple. I am wondering what are other people's experiences of using extjs. Does extjs plexity actually buy you something?
Share Improve this question edited Oct 27, 2010 at 23:00 Wolph 80.1k12 gold badges142 silver badges151 bronze badges asked Oct 27, 2010 at 21:29 Stefan SavevStefan Savev 1,35912 silver badges12 bronze badges 3- subjective question? shall we ask "what are the strengths of ExtJS that jQuery lacks?" or "What are the benefits of ExtJS over jQuery?" perhaps? Still seems loaded to me :\ ~~ Maybe this link helps? en.wikipedia/wiki/Comparison_of_JavaScript_frameworks – jcolebrand Commented Oct 27, 2010 at 21:32
- I would like opinion answers based on experience. Did people find extjs useful and in what cases, does it have bugs or its just my fault, is is plex to use or not; maybe there is a simpler way to do the same thing, and it is currently the jquery way. – Stefan Savev Commented Oct 27, 2010 at 21:38
- In the context of the question, I would add the 'web applications' tag insted of ajax/javascript – SW4 Commented Oct 27, 2010 at 22:10
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Reset to default 16They are not parable imho.
jQuery UI is just a bination of a couple of widgets which can be used together but are not really integrated or anything. Quite extensible, quite fast, but not a plete widget toolkit.
ExtJS is a full-blown widget toolkit Web App framework that is parable to most GUI toolkits in terms of features. yes it's useful, but it's also very plex and very large/slow. So imho it depends on what you need. For a normal frontend I would never use ExtJS since it's way too large and slow.
But for an Admin panel or something large where it actually adds a lot of usability, yes please.
Just try and create something like this with jQuery UI: http://dev.sencha./deploy/dev/examples/grid/totals.html
Also, with ExtJS you can even design your interfaces with a drag and drop interface these days: http://www.sencha./products/designer/download.php
Size parison:
jQuery:
jquery-1.4.2.min.js
: 70.5KiBjquery-ui-1.8.5.min.js
: 199.5KiB- Total: 270KiB
Ext:
ext-all.js
: 697.7KiBext-base.js
is 26.5KiB- Total: 724.2KiB