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Sencha Charts Essentials

Create stunning charts and visualizations for both web and mobile applications

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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    What you will learn

    • Set up and configure Sencha Charts and understand its extensibility capabilities
    • Create interactive HTML5 charts that are portable across the Web and touch/mobile
    • Deliver rich, professional, and engaging visualizations of complex, customized data including financial data, infographics, and so on
    • Understand the basic building blocks and the overall architecture of Sencha Charts
    • Get to grips with SVG and Canvas APIs to draw basic geometrical shapes
    • Create different types of charts, such as cartesian, polar, and spacefilling, in your application using outofbox charts from Sencha Charts
    • Compare Sencha Charts with other charting libraries/SDKs

    Who this book is for

    If you are an Ext JS or Sencha Touch developer, designer, or architect who wants to build enterprise-scale data visualization capabilities using Sencha, then this book is ideal for you. You should have a knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Sencha Ext JS or Sencha Touch fundamentals, in particular. Some familiarity with SVG and HTML5 Canvas would be preferred, but not required.

    Table of Contents

    1. Fundamentals
    2. Working with out of the box charts
    3. Sencha Charts Architecture
    4. Creating custom Cartesian chart
    5. Creating custom Polar charts
    6. Creating custom space filling charts
    7. Theming the custom charts
    8. Working with touch gestures
    9. Comparison with other charting libraries
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78528-848-7
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 214