Ext JS Application Development Blueprints

Get set

The questionnaire component that we'll build in this chapter will be reusable in any application. To that end, we can use an Ext JS package to create a bundle of code that can be built in the same way as a normal Ext JS application, but it can be incorporated as a component in our future applications. We discussed packages in Chapter 3, Application Structure, but now we'll see how they can be used in practice.

Here's how I started up the project that I used as a basis for this component and its test application:

sencha generate workspace ./questionnaire-space
cd questionnaire-space
sencha generate package wizard
sencha -sdk ~/Downloads/ext-5.0.1 generate app Questions ./questions

Building a package requires us to first create a workspace, ...