If you check ExtJs form, you will find some issues commonly faced by developers. I have seen people spending hours to solve these issues without any clue. Here is the list of few errors and expected root cause. Hope it will help someone. this.addEvents is not a function Check instantiation of the class. Most probably you forgot to write “ new” keyword while creating a class object. namespace.MyClass is not a constructor Check for typo in class definition or class instantiation. Did you forget to include the js file in html page or in jsb configuration? this.el is undefined / this.el is null In ExtJs “el” variable hold the reference of DOM element. And DOM element only initialize, when UI render correctly on web browser. If you are getting this error, then their is major chances of accessing “el” variable before UI component layout or render properly. Component is appearing as gray out or it is hanging somewhere else It can happen because of many other iss