Stuart Ashworth - Developer, Consultant & Trainer

How I Built a Chrome Extension Loved by over 9,000 10,000 15,000 Parents Update (2nd December 2025): Since I published this article the Christmas rush has hit and we are now up to over 10,000 users!

Partnering with Sencha I delivered a 7 part series of webinars where we built a cross-platform Email Client with Ext JS (both classic and modern toolkit).

I made a challenge for myself to post a quick Chrome Dev Tools tip on Twitter everyday for 30 days.

A few weeks ago I launched a wee website that shows you all the Number 1 songs on your birthday.

I recently launched a daft wee side-project to show people all the Number 1 songs on their birthday.

I recently launched a daft wee side-project to show people all the Number 1 songs on their birthday.

When composing a Vue.js interface of lots of sub-components we often want to make a few small styling tweaks to those sub-components without making changes to that component directly - either because we can't cos it's a 3rd party component, or because we…

There's a quick config that we can add to the vue.config.js file to disable source maps from being generated when producing production builds.

We all know how to add a listener to an event coming out of a Vue.js component, right?

We all know that we can define parameters on Vue Router route paths which are then parsed and made available in the $route.params object.

I recently faced a problem in a Vue.js application that I'm working on where a component had a toolbar that had some standard buttons and a slot so extra options could be added.

I saw a tweet recently (unfortunately I can't remember which one!

Sometimes our objects will have different properties and we want to consume them in the same way.

I always forget which way round to put the key and the renamed variable so this post is as much for my reference as yours!

The v-for attribute allows us to repeat a piece of markup for each item in an array.

So many icons have an ingrained meaning to us that when we use one on a button the action that will be triggered is second nature.

Most charts are fairly inaccessible due to their graphical nature and we should provide an alternative way for users of assistive technologies to consume the same data.

Ext JS Models (Ext.data.Model class) defaults to having an ID property named id.

When displaying images in our web applications we never want to see a dead image shown when an image file has been moved or deleted.

This is an adapted extract from my new eBook - Ext JS 6: Getting Started.

This is an extract from my new eBook - Ext JS 6: Getting Started.

IntelliJ has a lot of powerful features that help improve our overall development workflow.

I'm excited to announce the launch of my new email course - Best Practices for Improving your Sencha Apps - which delivers 7 lessons to your inbox on how to improve your Ext JS and Sencha Touch apps.

This week saw the announcement of the sessions running at SenchaCon 2015, which includes a big announcement about the future of the Sencha product landscape - “the merge”.

I've been through many different Chrome Extensions to allow me to grab colours from webpages but none of them ever stuck as being a reliable solution (perhaps I didn't look hard enough…).

This article is going to discuss how we can approach controlling application flow in Sencha Touch and Ext JS applications using domain-specific events rather than relying solely on standard framework events.

The Problem The rise of the mobile web over the last half decade or so has meant that our website testing, that once, not that long ago, generally involved 3 or 4 browsers across 3 or 4 operating system versions, has now grown to a hand-full of browsers,…