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Stefan Savev
Stefan Savev

Reputation: 1359

ExtJS vs. jQueryUI

I recently had the experience of doing the same thing (a search combo box) with jquery and extjs. I found extjs to be buggy and overly complex. On the contrary, I found jquery to work very well and be very simple. I am wondering what are other people's experiences of using extjs. Does extjs complexity actually buy you something?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 8348

Answers (1)

Wolph
Wolph

Reputation: 80111

They are not comparable imho.

jQuery UI is just a combination of a couple of widgets which can be used together but are not really integrated or anything. Quite extensible, quite fast, but not a complete widget toolkit.

ExtJS is a full-blown widget toolkit Web App framework that is comparable to most GUI toolkits in terms of features. yes it's useful, but it's also very complex and very large/slow. So imho it depends on what you need. For a normal frontend I would never use ExtJS since it's way too large and slow. But for an Admin panel or something large where it actually adds a lot of usability, yes please.

Just try and create something like this with jQuery UI: http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/dev/examples/grid/totals.html

Also, with ExtJS you can even design your interfaces with a drag and drop interface these days: http://www.sencha.com/products/designer/download.php

Size comparison:

jQuery:

  • jquery-1.4.2.min.js: 70.5KiB
  • jquery-ui-1.8.5.min.js: 199.5KiB
  • Total: 270KiB

Ext:

  • ext-all.js: 697.7KiB
  • ext-base.js is 26.5KiB
  • Total: 724.2KiB

Upvotes: 16

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