Packaging Sencha ExtJs Application With Github Electron

Sencha ExtJs provides developers the potential to develop universal applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Starting from version 6.0, ExtJs apps are not only limited to desktop but are also accessible on mobile and tablets as well. But what if you want to run your application as a native application like Phonegap?. Sencha provides a way to package your application into native mobile application using Sencha Command. They were also providing chromium based desktop packager before, but now this project seems to be discontinued. So what if you want to package your application into native desktop application?. There are lot...

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Better JavaScript Workflow With Jake

Jake is a javascript build tool that can dramatically improve your javascript development workflow. It helps you to easily maintain and automate the development tasks such as compiling sass files, typescript, coffeescript, etc, concatenate and minify source code, optimising images and validating your javascript code with JSHint. Unlike Grunt & Gulp, jake is not a plugin based tool. You can create jake tasks with any valid javascript code.

In this blog post we will use jake to speed up the front end development process. We will look breifely what jake can do, before jumping into real...

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