I used to work with Javascript much more than I’m working lately. I’m working more with backend and infrastructure tasks. Furthermore, I really like any kind of work with Javascript, and his frameworks like jQuery, PrototypeJS and Sencha (old ExtJS).
During 1 year, I spent 40 hours per week extending and creating components for ExtJS and applying these new components inside a project called Servus, but just now, 3 years after I left the company that is the owner of that product, it was released.
Took a long time until we could release something, because at that moment, code all the logic in both sides, server and client, sounded like much bad work. The good thing is that now, they have a Javascript client, and an API to be consumed by other kind of clients. Like an iPhone app, for example.
But using this kind of library is almost like code everything 2 times.
Sencha seems to be one of the most complete and stable frameworks to emulate desktop behaviors. I’m not a big fan of this kind of stuff on web, I think is a little bloated, and make the user load several files that aren’t really necessary, just to some visual impression, BUT Sencha Touch really got my attention. Focused on mobile devices, has a nice weight and follow the same patterns from ExtJS, what is nice, since you have everything built using Javascript, and a nice structure to keep your code organized. Lazy loaders and many other things that really makes your life easier.
So, for all of you that wanna try something really different, and learn something about Javascript, mainly how to write good code, please, take a look into Sencha.
P.S: jQuery FTW!! :-)
