Ext JS 7.9 & Rapid Ext JS V1.1 Have Arrived

April 22, 2025 1546 Views

Ext JS 7.9 & Rapid Ext JS V1.1 Has Arrived

The Sencha team is excited to announce the latest Ext JS version 7.9 and Rapid Ext JS 1.1 release – designed to accelerate development, enhance maintainability, and empower you to build exceptional user experiences with ease.

Following the Ext JS 7.8 release, which included highly requested features for Grids, Classic toolkit Froala Editor support and more. Along with quality improvements in both toolkits, 7.9 includes numerous quality enhancements in Ext JS for Modern and Classic Toolkits for customer requests focused on Grid, Calendar, Date, ComboBox, Store, etc., and much more. The release focuses on the core strengths of the framework – stability, performance, and global readiness.

Simultaneously, Rapid Ext JS V1.1 takes developer productivity to new heights. With seamless Visual Studio Code integration, reduced overhead, and effortless migration for Sencha Architect projects, you can build faster and smarter. This dynamic duo of releases provides the perfect blend of power and efficiency, enabling you to focus on innovation rather than troubleshooting.

Rapid Ext JS V1.1: Supercharging Your Development Workflow

Rapid Ext JS V1.1 is designed to accelerate your development process within the familiar environment of Visual Studio Code. Highlights include:

Sencha Architect Integration: Open and manage your existing Sencha Architect projects directly within VS Code, simplifying your workflow and maximizing code reuse with Rapid features support like design view, drag and drop components, ease update configuration, etc.

How to open a Sencha Architect based applications in Rapid
Multi-Project Support: Enable Rapid Ext JS across multiple projects within your VS Code workspace, offering unparalleled flexibility and control.

How to Enable Rapid Ext JS with multiple projects in VS Code
Enhanced Stability & Compatibility: Improved CPU usage in the Designer, enhanced compatibility with other VS Code extensions, and stabilized “Split View” and “Design View” functionalities contribute to a smoother, more productive development experience. Migrated applications are fully compatible, ensuring a seamless transition.
Support for Sencha Visual Studio Code Plugin: Alongside Rapid Ext JS, it now supports the Sencha Visual Studio Code Plugin, providing Ext JS IntelliSense, code inspection, and documentation lookup for a smoother and more efficient development experience.

Ext JS 7.9: Quality Enhancements and Developer Productivity Improvements

Grid Enhancements

Smoother virtual scroller resizing
Now properly supports multi-selection with virtual stores
Improved title binding for full grid customization
Column resizing now correctly applies to cached items
Removed deprecated method references in Ext.grid.selection.Model

Component Stability

ComboBox: Improved filter retention, ensuring consistent results even with empty input fields
Calendar: Enhanced event display on day/week views and improved event filtering functionality for a smoother user experience
Tabs: Improved layout stability, ensuring side tabs remain consistent across all zoom levels

Localization Excellence

Enhanced localization for a better experience in production builds
Improved user experience with more accurate and clear Japanese translations across both toolkits

Performance Optimizations

Improved virtual store multi-selection handling, enhancing performance of applications that involve large datasets

Enhanced remote filtering and sorting behaviors

Date Handling Improved:

Ext.Date.diff returns accurate DAY and WEEK values
Ext.Date.parse correctly handles daylight saving shifts

Tooling & Sencha CMD Updates

Documentation

Tooling & Sencha CMD Updates

Sencha CMD Enhancements:
- Provided support for Ext JS 7.9
- Improved Java path detection on Linux
Open Tooling Stability:
- NPM package installation now works with Node.js v20 (LTS)
- Provided support for Ext JS 7.9

Ext JS 7.9 brings enhancements and stability, ensuring a better experience for developers and end users alike

ReExt 1.1

ReExt provides a bridge between React and the powerful Ext JS framework, allowing developers to leverage Ext JS’s extensive library of over 140 UI components to help users build robust, high-performance web applications. These include a powerful data grid, trees, charts, calendars, D3, and more. ReExt 1.1 now seamlessly supports the latest Ext JS version 7.9!

Version Support

Provided support for Ext JS 7.9 in Sencha Upgrade Advisor v7.9, Sencha Architect v4.3.7, and Sencha Themer v1.4.5. Please visit the Support Portal and download the latest versions.

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