WEBIX BLOG

Struggling for the correct data visualization? That’s the challenge! Catchy and informative charts immediately win the hearts of analysts and customers, that’s why Webix offers… let me count… 14 different types of charts with 2 functional variations alongside with 2 chart-like widgets for specific use cases.

Yep, diversity makes lives brighter while the choice becomes more difficult. You have to select the right chart for your application as carefully as you choose a Christmas gift for your best friend. The article below can guide you to the ultimate tool.

Magic time is coming and our Team is delighted to send you our warmest Christmas and New Year wishes.
May your Christmas be filled with warmth, peace, happiness and special moments spent with your beloved ones. We wish you and your families a wonderful new year full of new opportunities, abundant joy and spectacular success.

The passing year has brought us a lot of positive news: 5 new releases, updated Spreadsheet, accessibility, but it is not all. We have something extra to offer!

“Never judge a book by its cover”, — my teacher told me many a time, but still I cannot deny that good design opens all doors, especially in web development. Since colorful and motley interfaces passed into oblivion long time ago, font and icons became a small but significant detail that can add a unique aesthetic touch to web apps. In this article we will speak about conventional ways of altering font and icons within Webix widgets.

Webix has never been just a javascript library. At first sight it looks like a static collection of widgets and ties between them, but an experienced eye will easily trace the system of reusable mixins and UI components. At the same time, Webix API allows anybody build homemade but fully functional tools. In this article we will cast the light on the peculiarities of prototyping in Webix and create an Office-like ribbon interface.

We are happy to introduce Webix 4.1 UI library with a Gage widget, Rich Text Editor control, and upgrades for Charts widget. This release of Webix JavaScript library will help you to solve the task of displaying dynamic data. You can create a dashboard for monitoring the performance of several resources and even a complex control panel like in a vehicle or weather station. For more information check our previous updates: minor Webix 3.4 and major Webix 4.0.

Web dashboards are in high demand today as they have proven to be a helpful tool for at-a-glance analysis of complex data together with its laconic visual presentation. Although dashboards originated from desktop applications web environment requires something not typical for them – responsiveness. In this article we will find out what Webix has already issued to meet this requirement and build our own flexible web dashboard.

Developers don’t like monotonous coding. But even with a number of tools and frameworks one often has to configure big forms by hand. Webix offers to exclude this task from your daily routine with the help of a custom Form Editor tool which was built totally on Webix public API.

September 27 is the most important day of the year for Webix community — as we have recently announced, it is the date of Webix 4.0 release.

We are happy to announce the upcoming major Webix 4.0 release with 4 remarkable updates that you will definitely appreciate: accessibility, Angular 2 compatibility, updated SpreadSheet, new widget, control and improvements.