how to run sencha web application without compiling

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Hello I am new to Sencha. I have created a test application using sencha cmd. When I have to run it i have to compile it. Is there any way so that I can run the application without compiling and without starting web server.

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 12 '17 at 10:28

You can access your uncompiled application, but you always have to use a web server to access your application, because there are problems with AJAX without a web server.

What I did to get this working:

I installed a local web server as a service (in my case it's IIS, but Apache or any other should work as well)
My local web server root directory points to my git repo directory.
In that git repo, I have the myapp-dev directory containing the uncompiled ExtJS application, the myapp directory, and the bin directory containing my backend API.

The app.json file in myapp-dev tells Cmd to compile into the myapp directory:

"output": {
     "base": "../myapp",
     "appCache": {
         "enable": false
     }
 },

That way, the relative paths to the server API are the same for both the uncompiled and the compiled version, e.g. ../api/GetSettings points to the same path for both versions.

I can now open localhost/myapp-dev/index.html in the browser and get the uncompiled version, or I can open localhost/myapp/index.html in the browser and get the compiled version.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 03 '17 at 18:53

You can just place your app files in a directory inside a server root, then open the index.html directly.

While it is desirable to compile it for production (to get a better performance), it is certainly not necessary if you just want to have your app in "development" mode all the time.

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