Sencha Touch Cookbook

Setting up the browser-based development environment

In the previous recipes, we saw how we can make use of PhoneGap to build, package, and deploy the Sencha Touch applications directly on the device. Another very popular kind of application is the browser-based one. All the devices which Sencha Touch supports come along with Internet browsers. In this recipe, we will see how we can develop a Sencha Touch application, access it, and test it using Internet browsers.

Sencha Touch is moving towards using HTML5 features but, today, it heavily uses the WebKit engine and, hence, in order to test the applications, we will require a browser which runs on the WebKit engine—Opera, Safari, and Chrome. We can also test most of the things on a browser running ...