CxJS Goes Open Source
After 5 years of development, more than 2200 commits, and 400 releases, CxJS is becoming free software. The whole set of widgets, charts, themes, demo applications, documentation, and tools is from now on available under the MIT license.
CxJS is a batteries-included JavaScript framework for single-page applications. CxJS is built on top of React and features a large collection of widget and chart components, alongside state management, client-side routing, theming, localization, and other application-level concepts. The goal of CxJS is to be a one-stop shop for projects such as admin applications and dashboards.
It was c lear from the beginning that maintaining a large JavaScript framework will be a difficult task. We chose a commercial licensing model hoping to directly fund development and support from sales, but we never got enough traction. Even without funding, CxJS continued to evolve. Here at Codaxy, we’re working on many consulting projects and we’re constantly adding new features based on the requirements we encounter. After five years of development, CxJS matured into a comprehensive battle-tested solution, but commercial offering simply does not make sense anymore.
Let’s go back and see some of the most challenging projects that influenced the development of the framework over the years.
