ExtJS

Raised as a usability problem by 23 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2007–2024), in 17 threads.

People raised many different problems with ExtJS, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 24 complaints

Install shows a spinner with no progress, no cancel, and Open button does nothing2024-01-15
Docs send user to homepage requiring an alpha invite key, blocking trying it2024-01-15
Debugging means traversing 5-10 framework OOP layers, making problems hard to trace2018-04-04
Navigating a thread requires too many page reloads2017-09-29
Core functionality hidden under so many abstraction layers it was impossible to debug2017-09-29
Requires a custom build tool to compile projects, making debugging a nightmare2017-09-29
Generated markup is deeply nested tables, hard to extend or customize2017-03-24
Event handler and binding code is hard to follow; unclear what updates which DOM part2017-01-13
Forgotten required configs cause deep, unrelated runtime errors with no useful message2016-09-20
Changing a dropdown's behavior requires a tangle of events and overrides2015-06-01
Shows an empty page when an error occurs somewhere in the application2014-06-27
Slow JavaScript-driven layouts that override the browser's own layout2014-06-27
Remote data integration is difficult and always a pain point2014-06-27
ComboBox config options interact in strange ways, with many pitfalls2014-06-27
App doesn't work well on phone screens and takes 10-20 seconds to load2014-05-15
Abstraction layers block users, forcing workarounds to do basic things2014-04-10
Steep learning curve with few good tutorials, books, or current examples2014-02-05
Hard to learn, and fine pixel layout adjustments take hours2014-01-30
Developers struggle to understand ExtJS and find documentation for many things2013-03-07
Hard to know what parameters and return values methods take, forcing doc lookups2012-10-12
Documentation is slow, breaks browser navigation, and shows too much information2011-03-09
Web UI was too complex, slow in IE7, and unusable in IE62010-06-15
Calling parent constructor requires verbose, confusing, fragile superclass references that beginners struggle to understand2010-03-21
Setting a combo box selection or pre-loading a tree menu takes several steps and is laughably complex2007-10-11