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Boosting Webix Pivot Performance: HTML5 Web Workers

By Olga Kustova | May 5, 2017

Performance is a key feature of modern web applications. It is a mountain you have to climb to win your customer’s heart, but sometimes its top remains unreachable due to heavy tasks the application has to perform on the client side.

Take, for instance, Webix Pivot table JS widget. It does a hard job of calculating and aggregating data and may leave the UI unresponsive if the data is too big. Fortunately, from version 4.2 the widget comes supplied with an HTML5 Web Worker, which takes all the data processing into a separate thread.

web workers for high-performant web pages

Meet Webix 4.3 with Bullet graph, React integration and new controls

By Anastasia Kovalenko | April 26, 2017

Webix UI library with React integration

The new release of the Webix Javascript library is available for download from now on. Both Webix Standard for open source projects and Webix PRO for commercial use have been updated. Let’s take a look at the main changes.

First Glance at Webix 4.3. React integration and new components

By Anastasia Kovalenko | April 20, 2017

ui libraries with react
The 24th International Forum on Telecommunications, Information and Bank Technologies “TIBO-2017” is held in Minsk on April 18-21, 2017. During one of the largest IT exhibitions in Baltic and CIS region the release of Webix 4.3 Javascript UI framework was announced.

Using Typescript Types in Webix UI Framework with Live Demo

By Olga Kustova | April 17, 2017

JavaScript, as a loosely typed programming language, causes a lot of troubles to web developers. Luckily, for the big world this problem has been solved long ago with the TypeScript language that adds strict typing and classed-based OOP to JavaScript apps.

With Webix you can also follow the TypeScript pattern and enjoy all the benefits of static typing from hints on methods’ usage during development to stable applications in the long run. The article below will tell you how to do it.

How to Create a Desktop App Using CSS and HTML5? Windows UI Example

By Yan Tsishko | April 7, 2017

Native applications are increasingly replaced by their Web analogues. More and more companies are developing cross-platform products and services, and you can do the same with Webix. The powerful javascript widgets library is capable of repeating any interface and, to prove this, let’s replicate Windows 10 interface in a web application.

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Webix UI Library New Release: Spreadsheet with Stories

By Olga Kustova | April 1, 2017

While we are working hard on the nearest Webix release, we can already present a powerful update of the complex JavaScript Spreadsheet widget. To march in step with the cutting-edge trends in application development we have added…
Webix UI library excel stories

…the possibility of creating Spreadsheet stories! Now, you can share your life experience within the widget without having to switch to Facebook or Instagram in the middle of the working day.

Client Side vs Server Side UI Rendering. Advantages and Disadvantages

By Sergey Laptick | March 31, 2017

The main aim of this article is to compare two popular approaches to the UI rendering: server-side and client-side.

We’ll check their pros and cons to help you decide whether one of them can replace the other or you’ll have to balance between them following the requirements to your project.

How to debug code and develop UI effectively with Webix UI Framework

By Olga Kustova | March 24, 2017

“Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie
where you are also the murderer”. Filipe Fortes

Want to develop Webix-based apps wisely and efficiently? Tired of red-eye nights spent by the computer screen? Still feel pain after catching that naughty untrackable bug last week?

Then it’s high time to arm yourself with technology and knowledge. Today I am going to get you acquainted with debugging tools that Webix offers right out of the box.

Difference between Declarative and Imperative Programming with Real Examples

By Sergey Laptick | March 22, 2017

In this article we’ll concentrate on two of the existing programming paradigms: Imperative programming and Declarative programming. We’ll check the main features of both of them and try to understand what pros and cons they have.

Atom Electron and Webix UI: An Example of Building Cross-platform App

By Yauheni Svirydzenka | March 17, 2017

Electron is an open-source framework that allows you to develop cross-platform desktop apps using web technologies such as JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

If you’re a web developer that has an idea of an app that no one can live without, you may wish to enlarge your audience by creating a desktop version as well. But multi-platform desktop application development involves the use of many different technologies, which significantly complicates the task.

<br/ >The main aim of this article is to learn how you can create cross-platform applications using Webix JavaScript Library and Electron. Besides that, we’ll use Node.js for the server-side part of our project and gulp to build project.

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