Presentation patterns to use with Ext

Question

Which presentation patterns do you think Ext favors or have you successfully used to achieve high testability and also maintainability?

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Answer 1

2 yeas have passed since this question was aksed and now Ext-JS 4 has a built-in implementation of the MVC pattern. However, instead of an MVP (which I prefer), it favors a straight controller because the views attachment themselves to the models through stores.

Here's the docs on the controller:

http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-1/#!/api/Ext.app.Controller

Nonetheless it can be made to act more like a supervising controller. One nice aspect of Ext-JS is the global application objects ability to act like an event bus for handling controller to controller communication. See this post on how to do that:

http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?176495-How-to-listen-for-custom-events-fired-in-application

Of course the definitive explanation of all these patterns can be found here:

http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/uiArchs.html