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Sencha

Score6.8 out of 10

13 Reviews and Ratings

What is Sencha?

Sencha is a mobile application development platform acquired by IDERA in 2017.

Sencha is great for business applications

Pros

  • Great components
  • One single library
  • Very good support
  • Easy version update

Cons

  • More default themes
  • Biggest community

Return on Investment

  • Excellent applications
  • Very good performance
  • Not very used, and developers don't like it at the beginning

Sencha Ext Js - A complete solution to your enterprise application

Pros

  • It's a complete solution that has a vast array of pre built components, charts and a data-grid based solution.
  • Security comes out of the box.
  • It's mobile and tablet ready.
  • It has a lot of support from the community so solutions are easily available
  • You can add your own flavor via theme customizations and built in component extension.

Cons

  • Being a huge framework with all these components the learning curve is huge as compared to other html5 and javascript frameworks out there today.
  • It's hard to plugin a custom pure javascript component, you need to stick to components that are part of sdk.
  • Changing some implementation of a component already defined is not straightforward, it needs a lot of understanding.
  • It takes a fair amount of time to even get the basic shell of the application up and running if you are starting from scratch.
  • It's very expensive from a licensing cost point of view.

Return on Investment

  • Developers are more focussed on implementing the business logic as compared to figuring out technical challenges of some slick user interface component.
  • Business is happy with the ease of use introduced by the new UI components.
  • We are well placed to move our application off from a purely web based platform to a mobile and tablet based solution.

Other Software Used

Eclipse Luna, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flex