WEBIX BLOG

You may already be aware of the release of Webix 3.0 only one week ago with more new cool features. That doesn’t mean that we are going to rest on our laurels. What it means is that we have already started working on the next Webix update.

To tell the truth, not all features that were planned for version 3.0 were included in the final release. We were a bit over-optimistic with our previous estimates. Nevertheless, features missing in version 3.0 have not been discarded and will be included in our next updates.

Webix UI

Version 3.1 (the date of release is the end of November) will contain the long-expected side-menu component and auto-sizing functionality for menu and buttons (that is mandatory for any multilingual app).

What is more, the next version will have layouts with absolute float positioning and data-map component that will allow you to visualize complex data similar to the next:

Hey everyone!

September 22 – mark the date in your calendar, because exactly on this day we will be glad to present our new major update – Webix 3.0. As autumn is a start of a working year, we decided to start it with a big upgrade.

What September 22 will bring:

1. Webix Jet – a micro framework on top of Webix UI, which will allow you to combine and reuse all of diverse and separate UI components, and to create and develop your perfect app with minimal code footprint and without any stress.
2. Visual designer – a tool for creating UI by drag and drop.
3. New, even more powerful functionality for grids: Sub-rows, Sub-grid, Sub-form.
   a) ability to show really complex data in the datatables
   b) nested tables
   c) master and slave data in the same table
4. Import/Export to PNG and Excel – no longer need to take screenshots or start separate tables. It definitely simplifies tasks’ solving and saves your time.

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Right after the release of Webix 2.5 we’ve updated our online developer tool Webix Skin Builder. Since this upgrade, it has an built-in Material skin and small UX enhancements.

For those who haven’t used Skin Builder yet, we’ll explain the practical use of this handy designer tool. It allows creating custom skins for the UI of your web apps as well as provides you with the existing set of skins.

Material Skin

When we’ve firstly announced the possibility to apply the Material skin to your web app built with Webix, the skin wasn’t included into the library package. To download it you had to go to the special github.com repository and take the skin there. Now this skin is available right from our Skin Builder tool.

Webix Skin Builder will also delight you with an improved UI. Just check it to be sure that it works and looks better.

We love open source and are willing to make this part of Webix community bigger and happier. Starting from Webix 2.4, in addition to the ability to use Webix in GPL projects, we add a FLOSS Exception to the existing GPL License. Thanks to this update, you can use Webix in your applications distributed under MIT, BSD and other open source licenses!

Thus, you can use Webix in open source projects that exists under a license that is a part of the FLOSS Exception List without taking into consideration the GPLv3 restrictions. The only requirement implies that your open source project should be intended for using by end-users but not for creating a library for software development purposes.

FLOSS License List

Want to know which FLOSS licenses can Webix be distributed under?

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.

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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It is believed that one of the most boring tasks in web-development is a form creating. Nowadays nearly any web app contains at least one form inside. The process of creating them over and over again isn’t much fun. That’s why we have created Form Builder.

This tool is intended to speed up the process of form creating. You just need to define the necessary fields as well as the desired form layout and then customize the auto generated form through the visual editor.

Despite it is summer and the thermometer says it’s time go at the seaside we are actively preparing for the release of Webix 2.0. There a lot of plans for the next library version and we implement them little by little.

In general, the new version 2.0 will deliver an improved performance, plenty of new features, UI improvements and a smoother behaviour. In this article it goes about a few of them.

Multi-text Inputs

With Webix multi-text inputs, it will be possible to create a form where a user will be able to add multiple entries dynamically and submit them simultaneously.

On pressing ‘+’ icon, an additional text input will be created and added to the form. And on pressing ‘-‘ icon, the input will be removed.

Good news! The installation of Webix is becoming easier. From today the library can be installed with the help of NuGet or Bower dependency management tools.

Nuget

NuGet is a package manager for the Microsoft development platform. You can install Webix by executing the following command line:

If you are a user of Microsoft Visual Studio, you should run the next command from Package Manager Console: