CxJS

CxJS, or simply Cx, is a feature-rich JavaScript framework for building complex web front-ends, such as BI tools, dashboards and admin apps. Modern frameworks such as React and Angular provide an excellent base for building UI components, however, component implementation and many other application aspects are left to the developer to figure out. CxJS tries to fill that gap and provide the all necessary ingredients required for modern web applications.

Demo Applications

Hacker News Progressive Web App

CxJS Hacker News is a Progressive Web App focused on startup performance. The application is based on Preact and uses webpack plugins to enable preloading, inline CSS and JS, configure service workers and achieve other performance gains.

Open App | Source Code

Worldoscope

Worldoscope uses CxJS to visualize data available from the World Bank website. Google Firebase is used to store report definitions, authentication and hosting.

Open App | Source Code

Starter Kit

Cx Starter Kit is full blown admin and dashboard application template with many sample pages.

Open App | Source Code

State Of JS 2016 Explorer

A sample application that illustrates CxJS charting features by visualizing data from The State of JavaScript 2016 survey.

Open App | Source Code

tdo

CxJS based TODO app featuring a dark theme, keyboard navigation, markdown support, custom CSS and much more.

Open App | Source Code

Features

CxJS uses React (or a React compatible library) for DOM manipulation and offers many high-level, UI related, features on top of it:

• widgets
  • form elements (DateTimeField, LookupField, ColorField)
  • advanced grid control
  • navigation (Menu, Tab, Link)
  • overlays (Window, MsgBox, Tooltip, Toast)
• charts
  • various chart types (PieChart, LineGraph, ColumnGraph, BarGraph)
  • axis types (CategoryAxis, NumericAxis, TimeAxis)
  • help elements (Legend, Marker, Range)
• state management
  • two-way data-binding
  • optional Redux integration
  • controllers
  • computed values
  • triggers
  • data views
• layout
  • inner (form) layouts
  • outer (page) layouts
• form validation
• user cultures
• client-side routing
• selection models
• theming
  • SCSS variables and mixins
  • ready to use themes (Material, Frost, Dark)

Learn CxJS

There are many examples and learning materials available:

• Examples
• Documentation
• Widgets & Themes Gallery
• Fiddle

If you need help, ask a question on StackOverflow. If you find a bug, please raise an issue. Request an invite to our Slack channel and become a member of the CxJS community.

Install & Start

This repository is used to develop main npm packages, documentation and gallery.

First, install the packages using npm or yarn. (Currently yarn is the preferred tool as npm is having issues around :link for symlinks - npm/npm#15900)

$ npm install

Build CxJS:

npm run build

Run docs:

npm start

Run gallery:

npm run gallery

Start a new project

CxJS is available as an NPM package - cx, which includes compiled code, source code and TypeScript definitions.

Besides the cx package, you'll need other packages such as cx-react (or cx-preact) and babel-plugin-transform-cx-jsx. You'll also need to configure Babel and webpack.

The quickest way to setup a new project is to use CLI:

md my-app
cd my-app
npm init -y
npm install cx-cli --global
cx scaffold
npm start

Themes

Once you create a new project, you may want to try our ready-to-use themes:

• cx-theme-material (Demo)
• cx-theme-frost (Demo)
• cx-theme-dark (Demo)

Install a theme using npm or yarn.

npm install cx-theme-frost

Open my-app/app/index.scss and replace

@import "~cx/src/variables"; 
@import "~cx/src/index";

with

@import "~theme-package-name/src/variables"; 
@import "~theme-package-name/src/index";

Please read theme documentation to learn how to enable theme specific features.

Boilerplates

Alternatively, start by forking one of the available boilerplate projects:

• cx-starter-kit - Full-blown admin and dashboard app
• cx-redux-examples - CxJS application with Redux based state management
• cx-typescript-boilerplate - CxJS with TypeScript

License

CxJS is is free for non-commercial use. Commercial use requires a license. Free commercial licenses are available for active open-source contributors upon request. Registered freelancers and contractors are eligible for special licensing programs.
Please refer to the website for more information.