Sencha Charts Essentials
暫譯: Sencha Charts 基礎精要

Create stunning charts and visualizations for both web and mobile applications

About This Book

• Rapidly get to grips with the fundamentals and essentials of the Sencha charting library
• Discover out-of-the-box enterprise visualizations and develop your own custom charts
• Learn to make your charts work on desktop and touch-sensitive devices

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.

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 out-of-box charts from Sencha Charts
• Compare Sencha Charts with other charting libraries/SDKs

In Detail

Sencha Charts is a new and powerful library used to create rich and beautiful charts for your Sencha Touch and Ext JS applications. With built-in HTML5, Sencha Charts is optimized for performance and fully supportive of gestures and touch devices to make visualizing data effortless.

First, you will get to grips with charting fundamentals using multiple tools and then engage with the Sencha Charts architecture.

You will then learn how to use out-of-the-box charts, and then create your own custom cartesian, polar, and spacefilling charts to visualize your own data.

Finally, you will see how Sencha Charts compares with other charting libraries for all your data expression needs.