Cost-Effective Approach to Using Kendo UI
August 31, 2017
Cost-Effective Approach to Using Kendo UI
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Kendo UI
Our organization uses Kendo UI in the subscription product line of our flagship products. Kendo UI allows us to render a nicer UI at a low-cost level. The online tutorials and documentation are getting better as the product has matured, though it would be lice to see a library of step-by-step tutorials, as well as, additional how-to videos in the Pluralsight library.
- The Kendo UI Components demo page gives a lot of great examples that make it easy to get started.
- Once you FIND the Getting Started page on the web getting up to speed becomes easier.
- For developers, as long as you have admin rights to your machine, the ability to update Kendo UI is EXTREMELY easy. Its built into the installation and you get notified when updates are available.
- Progress needs to create an educational dashboard for developers. They need a single page where developers can see a list of step-by-step tutorials, videos, links to documentation and demos for each of their products.
- While Kendo UI is an awesome product, headaches start rolling in when the business users decide to change colors and tweak the CSS. Kendo is very-cost-effective until you need to change it to fit the look of your UI.
- The wide array of products in the Progress line can be overwhelming and its not always easy to figure out which UI product you really should use.
- On a positive note, the Kendo UI gives our products a polished look and feel that we couldn't get otherwise since we don't have an on-staff designer.
- On a negative note, developers sometimes go a bit crazy and use a variety of Kendo products in a single application. This can cause delays in the future because other developers need to learn new Kendo products. For example, some use the ASP.NET for MVC version and Kendo UI in the same product - this can be painful. Pick one product and stick to it...don't allow one-off uses.
We use Telerik's Kendo UI for AJAX, MVC and jQuery. Now that we're venturing into Angular some colleagues want to use the Angular set of components.