Overview

Webix offers several layers of functionality:

a number of UI components from simple buttons to complex solutions;
data components with various API to store and manage data on the client side;
data loading and saving API to communicate with the server side;
solutions for common tasks like data export, printing, localizing, styling, etc.

Main Features

1. Rich UI components: The library supplies over 100 fully customizable components such as Form, Tree, Datatable, Chart etc.
2. Adaptive layouts: Each component is placed into the layout cell that can have fixed, relative or flexible dimensions.
3. Possibility to customize components: Webix provides abundant possibilities in extending existing components and creating new ones.
4. Possibility to listen to component events: loading, sorting, clicking, etc.: Numerous events let you handle or interfere into any action that can happen in the app.
5. Possibility to rearrange components on the fly.: Any component can be added or removed, shown or hidden from the current layout.
6. Dynamic fullscreen mode for any component.: Any component in the current layout can be opened by user in a fullscreen mode.
7. Support for localization: Labels within Webix components, date and number formats can be adjusted to your language and culture.
8. Styling with standard CSS: You can use CSS to style specific components and their items. You can define sizes and padding within JS code.
9. Simple integration with server side: You can integrate Webix with any server-side platform. Besides, there are ready solutions for PHP, .NET, Java.
10. Supported data formats: XML, JSON, JsArray, CSV: You can use your favorite formats to data into components. All popular data formats are supported.
11. Dynamically fetching data from the server.: While working with large datasets, you can load data dynamically to reduce complexity and improve performance. Polling interval and the number of loaded records can be controlled.
12. On-the-fly filtering and sorting: The library offers rich means of filtering and sorting, starting from built-in tools and ending with fully custom filtering and sorting logic.
13. Inline editing: All data components can be edited directly from the UI without the need to create separate forms.
14. Drag-and-drop: Users have the possibility to drag-and-drop items of the components. The library supports drag-and-drop between several components and allows to customize the whole process.
15. Copy and paste operations between components: By common CTRL+C/CTRL+V keyboard shortcuts data can be copied or moved within one or several components.
16. Data binding: One-way binding can be used to connect Form or Template values with component data. Two-way binding can be used to synchronize records of several data components.
17. Paging for big datasets: Data components can be supplied with customizable pager controls that can be used for either browsing client-side data or fetching remote data chunk by chunk.
18. Export data to Excel, CSV, PNG: Data from components can be exported into popular formats by API calls.
19. Print components: Webix allows printing any component or app part while adjusting it to the page.
20. Rich API: A full range of API with the detailed descriptions is available.
21. Integration with other frameworks and libraries: Webix provides integration with a number of popular frameworks and libraries: jQuery, AngularJS and Angular, React, Vue.js, Backbone.js and MeteorJS.
22. Third-party UI integration extensions: Webix provides a set of integration extensions that allow you to add third-party tools into an application, e.g. Google, Yandex maps, NicEdit, TinyMCE text editors, Konva, Paper graphic tools, JustGage, SigmaJS charts, dhtmlxScheduler event calendar, etc.