JavaScript / HTML5 News

Celebrating 5 Year Partnership with Sencha

May 21, 2025
ComponentSource and Sencha have worked together since 2020 to provide development tools for building cross-platform web applications.

ComponentSource has played a central role in broadening access to Sencha’s suite of development tools by making them more readily available to a global developer audience. Its distribution infrastructure has helped ensure that organizations - including many in the Fortune 100 - can obtain the tools they need to build and maintain complex, data-driven web applications across platforms.

For five years, ComponentSource has supported developers by providing a straightforward route to acquiring Sencha's products. This collaboration reflects a shared goal: to make software procurement simpler and more reliable, particularly for teams working on large-scale or multi-device applications.

Celebrating a successful 5-year journey, ComponentSource and Sencha look forward to further empowering development teams globally. This continued collaboration aims to enhance the availability and adoption of Sencha's tools, enabling even more organizations to build sophisticated web applications for diverse devices.

For more information, visit our Sencha brand page.

Dynamically Set Sub-Report Sources

May 19, 2025
Stimulsoft Reports.JS enables flexible, data-driven report structures using expression-based file paths or URLs.

Stimulsoft Reports.JS provides a robust reporting toolkit designed specifically for JavaScript applications. This library leverages a client-side architecture, offering a pure JavaScript report engine for efficient report rendering directly within web browsers. The solution includes a user-friendly report designer for building reports with various data sources and visualizations, along with a report viewer for seamless integration and display within your JavaScript applications. This eliminates the need for server-side dependencies or browser plugins, simplifying the development process for embedding powerful reporting functionalities into your web projects.

The Stimulsoft Reports.JS includes expressions within the URL and File fields of the Sub-Report component. This functionality helps developers to dynamically determine the source of a sub-report, whether it is a file path or a web address, based on the evaluation of expressions. Consequently, this allows for the creation of more adaptable and context-aware reports where the embedded sub-report content or linked resources are determined programmatically based on the main report's data, offering greater flexibility in report design and data integration without the need for static configurations.

Stimulsoft Reports.JS is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual license with 1 year support and maintenance. See our Stimulsoft Reports.JS licensing page for full details.

Stimulsoft Reports.JS is available individually or as part of Stimulsoft Ultimate.

Celebrating 5 Year Partnership with Froala

May 19, 2025
ComponentSource and Froala have worked together since 2020 to provide developers with powerful rich text editing solutions.

ComponentSource has helped extend access to Froala's lightweight WYSIWYG HTML editor by making it available to developers around the world. The JavaScript-based editor integrates easily into web applications, offering straightforward rich text editing capabilities that fit well within ComponentSource's global catalog of developer tools.

The partnership between ComponentSource and Froala, now spanning five years, reflects a shared dedication to providing developers with high-quality and easily accessible software. This collaboration has created a reliable channel for developers to obtain Froala's products.

As they mark five years of working together, ComponentSource and Froala continue to support developers with accessible editing solutions. The availability of Froala Editor through ComponentSource underscores its position as a useful tool for modern web content editing, and strengthens ComponentSource’s role as a resource for trusted development components.

Froala Editor is licensed per product and domain. It is available as an annual or perpetual license with version upgrades and support. See our Froala Editor licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our Froala Editor product page.

Set Columns as Mandatory in Data Grid Apps

May 16, 2025
Use grid controls in JavaScript to define mandatory columns, ensuring that essential fields are filled out to maintain complete and valid input.

A fundamental feature in a data grid is the ability to specify that a column must be populated with values and cannot be left empty. By designating certain columns as mandatory, developers can enforce input rules that prevent users from leaving critical fields blank, such as user identifiers, product names, or timestamps. Required columns are typically enforced through validation rules that prevent the submission or processing of incomplete records, thereby ensuring the completeness and validity of data entries. This improves data integrity, reduces the likelihood of processing errors, and supports consistent business logic across applications that rely on structured datasets.

Several JavaScript grid controls allow you to set columns as required, including:

  • Wijmo FlexGrid (part of Wijmo by MESCIUS) is a JavaScript data grid that allows columns to be marked as required, including built-in validation logic to ensure compliance.
  • Jspreadsheet Pro Data Grid (part of Jspreadsheet Pro) supports the use of validation rules to ensure entries meet predefined criteria, enabling you to define mandatory fields.
  • SmartClient Grid (part of SmartClient by Isomorphic Software) equips JavaScript apps with required column configuration to prevent the submission of incomplete records.
  • Ignite UI Angular Grid (part of Infragistics Ignite UI) offers developers an out of the box validator to enforce the population of required columns during data entry.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of JavaScript grid controls.

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Focus Dashboard Insights with Filtered Variables

May 15, 2025
Stimulsoft Dashboards.JS provides end-users with clean, focused options by filtering variables directly in the parameters panel.

Stimulsoft Dashboards.JS is a JavaScript-based tool for creating interactive dashboards within web applications. Designed for developers and businesses, it provides customizable charts, graphs, and tables to visualize complex data from various sources. It supports popular JavaScript frameworks such as React, Vue.js, and Node.js, enabling seamless integration into modern web projects. With an intuitive interface and responsive design, it suits use cases like business intelligence, performance monitoring, and data-driven decision-making. Stimulsoft Dashboards.JS enhances user engagement and simplifies data analysis for industries such as finance, marketing, and logistics.

Stimulsoft Dashboards.JS includes the capability to filter variable values within the parameters panel of the viewer. This enhancement allows developers to provide end-users with a more refined and efficient parameter selection experience. By implementing expression-based filtering in the variable editor or Items window, only relevant data options are presented during report or dashboard viewing. This targeted presentation of variable values reduces visual clutter and improves the process of specifying report parameters, ultimately leading to improved usability and more focused data exploration for the end-user.

Stimulsoft Dashboards.JS is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual license with 1 year support and maintenance. See our Stimulsoft Dashboards.JS licensing page for full details.

Stimulsoft Dashboards.JS is available individually or as part of Stimulsoft Ultimate.