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Learning Ext JS_Fourth Edition

You're reading from   Learning Ext JS_Fourth Edition Create powerful web applications with the new and improved Ext JS 5 library

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784394387
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Carlos A Mendez Segura Carlos A Mendez Segura
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Armando Gonzalez Armando Gonzalez
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. An Introduction to Ext JS 5 2. The Core Concepts FREE CHAPTER 3. Components and Layouts 4. It's All about the Data 5. Buttons and Toolbars 6. Doing It with Forms 7. Give Me the Grid 8. DataViews and Templates 9. The Tree Panel 10. Architecture 11. The Look and Feel 12. Responsive Configurations and Tablet Support 13. From Drawing to Charting 14. Finishing the Application 15. What's Next? Index

Ajax


Before we start learning about the data package it's important to know how we can make an Ajax request to the server. The Ajax request is one of the most useful ways to get data from the server asynchronously. This means that the JavaScript loop is not blocked while the request is being executed and an event will be fired when the server responds; this allows us to do anything else while the request is being performed.

If you are new to Ajax, I recommend you read more about it. There are thousands of tutorials online, but I suggest you read this simple article at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/AJAX/Getting_Started.

Ext JS provides a singleton object (Ext. Ajax) that is responsible for dealing with all the required processes to perform a request in any browser. There are a few differences in each browser, but Ext JS handles these differences for us and gives us a cross browser solution to make Ajax requests.

Let's make our first Ajax call to our server. First, we will need to...

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