Mastering Ext JS - Second Edition

Summary

In this chapter, we covered how to implement screens that look very similar to the MySQL Table Editor. The most important concept we covered in this chapter is implementing abstract classes, using the inheritance concept from OOP. We are used to using these concepts on server-side languages, such as PHP, Java, .NET, and so on. This chapter demonstrated that it is also important to use these concepts on the Ext JS side; this way, we can reuse a lot of code and also implement generic code that provides the same capability for more than one screen.

We created a Base Model, Store, View and a Controller. We used the following plugins: celleditor for the GridPanel and Live Search grid and filter plugin for the GridPanel as well. You learned how ...