Ext MVC¶ ↑

EXT MVC is a complete MVC stack on top of Ext JS (extjs.com).

Base App¶ ↑

You are advised to use the base app to get up and running with Ext MVC as it sets everything up for you.

If you’re comfortable with git:

1. git clone git://github.com/extmvc/baseapp.git myapp

2. cd myapp

3. rm -rf .git/

4. git init

If not:

1. Download the latest zip file from Github at github.com/extmvc/baseapp/zipball/master and unzip.

Getting started¶ ↑

Read the readme file inside the base app and refer to extmvc.com

Building¶ ↑

Ext MVC comes with a set of build tools for itself and your applications, written in Ruby. You need to be using the Baseapp or a structure similar to it for these to work effectively.

Building your Ext MVC application¶ ↑

Build any app started from the base app by running this from the app’s root directory:

ruby script/build all

This will examine the contents of index.html, pull out all of the javascript includes and concatenate them into public/application-all.js. If you have the yui-compressor in your vendor directory (this is included by default) and you have java installed, the build process will also minify your application-all.js into application-all-min.js.

Building your app also concatenates any CSS includes in index.html into public/application-all.css.

NOTE: Building looks at your index.html, NOT public/index.html. index.html is your development version, public/index.html should simply include those concatenated/minified files.

Autobuild¶ ↑

If you need your app to be built every time you change any of the source files for whatever reason, use:

ruby script/build auto

This will again look at index.html and will force a rebuild any time any of those files are changed.

Other app build options¶ ↑

There are several other build commands, most of which are used by the two above:

• ruby script/build css - only build CSS files, no JS concatenation or minification

• ruby script/build js - only builds JS files, not CSS

• ruby script/build concatenate_js - concatenates but does not attempt to minify your JS

• ruby script/build minify_js - minifies an already concatenated public/application-all.js file

Building Ext MVC¶ ↑

If you are changing Ext MVC files and need to build Ext MVC itself, use:

• ruby script/build mvc

• ruby script/build mvc_auto

Again run from the app root directory. Like with ruby script/build auto, mvc_auto automatically rebuilds whenever any Ext MVC file is changed.