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Kony Development Cloud
Improve performance while the app is in production. The init app development in planning, the testing stage is not an ideal scenario to use KDC yet.
Principal IS Consultant
IMVECHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees
React
React is great for people who are trying to build complex single page web applications. It is intuitive for developers, encourages modularity through components, and provides a web app this will scale. React may not be suited as well for simple websites or static content. However, this is changing with frameworks like Gatsby which allow you to build static HTML websites using React.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 201-500 employeesPros
Kony Development Cloud
- Cross-platform mobile development - we used this for developing the app on a native platform (which could be iOS, Android). Kony offers tools that are useful because they decrease costs and increase the speed at which apps are developed. In addition, cross-platform mobile development tools are generally quite simple to use as they are based off of the common languages for scripting, including CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. It has become easy to find resources with the skill set especially because this is based out of common languages.
- In Kony mobility platform Visualizer makes app development quick and easy. Tons of documentation online.
- Used Kony to develop an amazing app that serves our customers well. WYSIWYG interface is great for building interfaces quickly. Build and test quickly for many different targets.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Semiconductors Company, 5001-10,000 employeesReact
- React is designed around the notion of generated html as opposed to templated html. This provides more flexibility in building elements on a page, and allows developers to create html that is programmatically configured based on runtime considerations.
- React uses JSX, which is HTML templating integrated into javascript code. This simplifies the generation of complex structures, especially those that vary based on runtime and interactive data.
- React is more efficient because it generates a virtual DOM rather than directly building in in the actual DOM. By building 'offline' in this manner, the DOM generation is faster. After building, it can be installed in one operation.
- React only builds those portions of the display that have changed, making display updates more efficient.
Senior Software Engineer
Survey MonkeyInternet, 501-1000 employees
Cons
Kony Development Cloud
- Manuals or instructions need to be streamlined with its high pricing.
- It's a very intricate platform. It only performs moderately while the app is currently in operation.
Principal IS Consultant
IMVECHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees
React
- React could get very frustrating unless you start thinking in React. React enforces a top down hierarchy of data flow and offers no way for the data to communicate backwards. This is a big shift in mindset coming from Angular 1.x. This constraint is really a big factor that determines how to organize your code and how you might want to write your own Components.
- Because of the self imposed top down hierarchy, you end up having a heavy parents with dumb children. Because parents would need to the bulk of the work, they usually manage the state, while passing callbacks to the child components. If not properly designed, this could lead to the callback hell, where you could have callbacks passing through like multiple children.
- As with any library, you will have to iterate through multiple designs to come up with a ways to avoid "heavy parent components" in React. One obvious solution is using some open source tools like Redux, but we opted for a variation of it to suit our needs.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Usability
Kony Development Cloud
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React
React 9.0
Based on 2 answers
React is just a bit of a different animal. I was avoiding it for the longest time. I thought for sure I would land on Vue or something else with a more approachable and familiar appearance. But after taking an online course in React, I started realize what people were raving about (and complaining about) and decided to implement it at our office for one of our products.
Developer
By the Book, Inc (Software For Churches/NonProfits)Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees
Support Rating
Kony Development Cloud
No score
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React
React 10.0
Based on 3 answers
The code maintainers are usually very alert in Github, Twitter, and other channels, replying and solving any doubts or questions.
FrontEnd Web Developer
loveholidaysRecreational Facilities and Services, 201-500 employees
Alternatives Considered
Kony Development Cloud
We evaluated variety of platforms like Xamarin, Sencha, PhoneGap. When we were initially evaluating Xamarin, it was not Microsoft and so the releases and features were not very streamlined. Also licensing was a issue with that.Sencha was a very attractive cross mobile platform but was expensive. Just for handful of developers price was high. Ours is big enterprise so licensing costs became huge.PhoneGap is based out of open source Apache Cordova project and is completely free to use, which goes some way to explain its popularity. The enterprise version boasts marketing features via Adobe’s Marketing Cloud, so when it launches it will probably be monetized.Comparing with the features platform has to offer and the price tag attached to it, we narrowed down to using Kony.

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Employee in Information Technology
Semiconductors Company, 5001-10,000 employeesReact
I have also used Vue, Angular, and Ember for various projects. Out of the three, I am most intrigued by Vue. It takes a more beginner-friendly approach than React and changes some of the abstractions it uses to be more transparent to the user. It also comes with a lot more "built-in" than React. Angular is similar, but I've found it over-engineered and hard to work with. I have the least experience with Ember out of all of these, but it seems like another reasonable alternative with very strong conventions in place and an excellent CLI.

Verified User
Contributor in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 10,001+ employeesReturn on Investment
Kony Development Cloud
- Positive on ROI. I'm constantly utilizing Kony since it's a robust tool capable of publishing.
- It also shares prototype creations of apps in a highly intuitive and customizable environment. It provides a preview of apps in real-time. Collaboration is seamless. Important functionality includes smartphone features (without any written code involved) and accessibility to a browser, maps, and SMS.
- Trying to understand the user manual can be challenging since there are way too many features available. All of them aren't really necessary for beginners. And they've yet to offer them in a "phased" approach.
Principal IS Consultant
IMVECHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees
React
- React sped up the time to implement new features, providing much better code-reuse across the team
- React's excellent performance made it so new components ran faster in the browser
- Since React is so popular, it's been easy to recruit new developers to the team who already have a familiarity with the library
Chief Architect
LiveTilesComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Pricing Details
Kony Development Cloud
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
React
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No