Is anyone using Netzke in production?

Question

I'm building an Ext.js application, and I'm planning on using rails for the backend. I'm trying to decide whether to use Netzke, or roll my own. Is anyone using Netzke in production?

Answer 1

Yes we do for a mid-size backoffice application localized in French, English and Thaï. We started with Netzke 0.6 & ExtJS3 and just finished upgrading to Netzke 0.7 & ExtJS4 (upgrading took 4 days with a little pain sometimes, but all in all it went pretty well). The development time for the application is about ~3 months with 3 junior developpers and me (got 100% test coverage + acceptance testing with Cucumber).

I've been investigating before choosing Netzke (JQuery UI, Roll-our-own UI, pure ExtJS, ...) and i'm very happy with the results (the customer too, which is much more important).

We are now happily starting another customer project with Netzke & ExtJS4.

Bests,

Answer 2

Yes I do. For a smaller address management solution for <100 user with each >100k addresses.

My team also builded a larger application with extjs and rails (3 man years) and we used pure extjs and rails without any pre-build library.

I wouldn't suggest netzke for bigger projects. If you build something bigger, you better build your own framework that perfectly match your needs - not more not less. For smaller projects and prototypes neztke is really great.

If you have more detailed questions, feel free to contact me.