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Deft JS 5 enhances Sencha's Ext JS 5 and Sencha Touch APIs with additional building blocks that enable large development teams to rapidly create enterprise-scale applications, leveraging best practices and proven patterns discovered by top RIA developers at some of the best consulting firms in the industry.

Deft JS 5 works with Ext JS version 5 and up, and Sencha Touch version 2.0.1 and up.

Goals

• Flexibility: Coordinates dynamic assembly of object dependencies based on a configurable Inversion of Control (IoC) container.
  • (Wikipedia has entries on IoC and dependency inversion if you'd like additional background information)
• Approachability: Builds on familiar Ext JS API syntax conventions for ‘pay-as-you-go’ complexity.
• Simplicity: Eliminates boilerplate code in favor of the simplest expression of developer intent.
• Testability: Promotes loose coupling through class annotation driven dependency injection.
• Extensibility: Leverages the advanced class system provided by Ext JS and Sencha Touch.
• Reusability: Enables business layer code reuse between Ext JS and Sencha Touch applications.

Documentation Overview

• Summary of Features
• Key Changes in Deft JS 5
• Adding Deft JS to Your Application
• Core Features
• Additional Features
• Deft JS Examples
• Recommended Architecture (coming soon)
• Deft JS API Docs
• F.A.Q. and Contribution Guidelines
• Resources and Mailing List