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Major Webix Release 6.0 with New Skin and Custom Packages

The long-awaited day has come: Webix 6.0 is here. And it hasn’t arrived quietly, so fasten your seatbelts and prepare for most dramatic changes. Webix now has a new default material skin. You can build your own Webix pack only with the widgets you need.

Read on to find out what awesome updates await you and how to integrate them.

Major Webix Release 6.0 with New Skin and Custom Packages

Dashboards: Tips for Young (and Aspiring) App-Builders

Reading time: 3 minutes

More tips and tricks from Webix await you today! If you want to know more about building good-looking interfaces, read on. You will learn more about creating dashboards, turning simple widgets into something more sophisticated and developing with Webix Jet.

I also have a demo for you, so grab the sources from https://github.com/webix-hub/student-dashboard-demo.

Dashboards: Tips for Young (and Aspiring) App-Builders

Creating Apps with Live UI Editing using Webix AbsLayout

Reading time: 7 mins

If you want to create applications that let your users build interfaces themselves, read on and find out how you can achieve this with Webix. Building dynamic user interfaces can be partially achieved with Webix Dashboard. In some cases, like building forms, you can use Form Builder. This service uses AbsLayout as the area for UI building. I will show you how to equip AbsLayout with Drag-n-Drop and use it for rearranging, adding, and deleting UI components.

Creating Apps with Live UI Editing using Webix AbsLayout

Webix 5.4 with GraphQL support, updated SpreadSheet and FormBuilder

Even though the summer is in full swing, our team of developers has been working hard to bring you the new version of Webix. Webix 5.4 includes the new WJet utility that will help you start working with Webix Jet, GraphQL and Firestore support, updated SpreadSheet and Scatter chart widgets, and usability improvements for Form Builder and Snippet Tool. Check out the What’s new page for the full list of updates.

Cascading Comboboxes in Webix

Reading time: 3 mins

If you want to create powerful yet simple forms for complex input, join me. I will show you how to create cascading comboboxes, where the list of options of one combobox depends on the selection in the previous one. This way users can input complex hierarchical data in a convenient way.

Cascading Comboboxes in Webix

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