WEBIX BLOG

Good news! From today to start using Webix library you don’t need to download the package from our website and then unpack it. You may include 2 webix files from the Internet by just setting links to CDN.

CDN can offer a performance and availability benefit by hosting Webix on servers all over the world. The advantage is that if the visitor to your webpage has already downloaded a copy of Webix from the same CDN, it won’t have to be re-downloaded.

Now if the end user works, for example, with several apps that are built on the basis of Webix, the loading speed of the second app will be much faster than it was before using CDN. When your user works with the first app the webix.js and webix.css files are downloaded into cache and stored there. Thus, when a user checks the second app, the browser won’t need to re-download Webix files as they are already in the cache.

Everybody plans their work, Webix team is not an exception. Today we want to share our plans concerning library improvements.

Thus, we will present you the Webix Roadmap for 2015.

By publishing roadmaps (we are going to continue this tradition) we will make our ideas transparent.

All the plans described in Roadmap are formed on the basis of the following issues:

• trends in IT industry
• forum posts
• support tickets
• comments in docs, blog
• requests via social network

It means that your feedback is essential for us as it helps us choose the right direction in product development and concentrate on the most valuable features. This ensures that the functions expected and preferred by you will be implemented in our next releases.

With the increase in using web applications, the need for a widget that allows working with hierarchical data becomes primary. A web-based file manager is a good solution for managing such type of data within any modern web browser.

Today we are glad to present you a new Webix widget intended for organizing your data in the Internet – JavaScript File Manager. It is a JavaScript and HTML5 component that allows you to manage hierarchical data, e.g. files and folders.

We are happy to inform you about the update of Webix UI library. The new version 2.2 introduces plenty of new handy features and lots of other significant improvements.

New Buttons in Calendar

Version 2.2 has brought new optional “Clear” and “Today” buttons to the Calendar widget.
The button “Today” makes it possible to view the current calendar date. The “Clear” control is intended for removing the date selection.

These buttons will be visible by default. If you need to hide these controls, you can easily do it with one codeline.

We’ve decided to collect top 10 Webix blog posts for 2014 in one review article. Here you’ll find out how to create a Web Chat or mobile app with our library or how to optimize your working process by means of handy Kanban board widget. Moreover, in these range of articles we are talking about using Webix with NodeJS, DND within widgets and about many other.

Using JavaScript Library Webix with NodeJS

NodeJS is a programming technology that allows creating server-side applications in several code lines. By the way, you can make web apps on NodeJS platform fully in JavaScript, which is a significant advantage. Fortunately, Webix components are compatible with this technology!

This article will tell you about the simplicity of connecting Webix UI to a database with the help of NodeJS. Moreover, you can use the same server-side code for any Webix component and with any data.

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We are glad to present you a new Webix widget Kanban Board. This is a tool that allows tracking the work flow and change it on the go according to the requirements. Thus, you will develop all your products Just-in-time.

Moreover, Kanban displays the work processes in a transparent way. It allows team members to know what they should be working on, track the workload level of each participant and, as a result, be aware of the real state of project development.

With Webix Kanban, you’ll get the entire idea of your business process and will be able to achieve amazing operational results in terms of quality and performance.

If you would like to get Webix Kanban Board, please go here.

We are glad to inform you about the update of Webix to version 2.1. This release presents a wide range of features. Most of them are aimed to improve the current compatibility of the Webix widgets with frameworks, libraries and browsers. Version 2.1 also includes some UI improvements and general bug fixes.

Compatibility with Bootstrap

Since version 2.1, Webix runs with Bootstrap, a popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework, even better, which allows you to build nice web apps which contain beautiful elements.

It is hard to imagine a modern life without planning both business and personal events. We can use desktop calendars, datebooks, web apps for such purposes. But the most convenient calendar is the one that is always at hand – a mobile calendar. JavaScript Scheduler is a JavaScript and HTML5 event calendar adapted for mobile devices.

This web calendar allows creating easily editable single- and multi-day events. To edit an event, you simply need to click on it and make the necessary changes in the “Edit” form. To change the start and end dates you should click on the corresponding form field and then select the date in the calendar.

Webix Scheduler has 3 basic views: Day, Week and Month. It is possible to navigate between them by clicking on calendar tabs.

We would like to present a new mobile application built with Webix that works brilliantly on devices running Firefox OS.

“Firefox OS app built with Webix “Don’t forget” is a handy grocery list app that significantly simplifies your shopping. It allows you to create and manage shopping lists.

Webix features the drag-and-drop functionality that is available not only for desktop but also for mobile devices.

The library allows making drag-and-drop operations within a widget itself as well as between a few different widgets or even between the same widgets. In this article it goes about drag-and-drop operations within Webix data management widgets.

Learn how to implement this functionality with ease.

Drag-and-drop modes

Firstly, make sure that both target and source widgets have the drag property set to true. Basically, it is enough to enable drag-and-drop.