Just Kendo It!
September 12, 2017
Just Kendo It!
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Kendo UI
We use Kendo UI to implement the browser based UI of our messaging product named Kuro. Kuro is a fully featured middleware product capable of high volume message exchange using the EbXml (V2) specification.
The UI provides Kuro administrators with the ability to configure all aspects of Kuro. This includes the creation and configuration of embedded HTTP servers and their associated security profiles. Its dashboards also provide administrators with real time feedback of the state of Kuro components and allows the embedded trading engines and HTTP servers to be started and stopped.
The UI also provides a full message search facility to allow administrators to quickly find messages that need to be resent or which need further investigation.
The UI provides Kuro administrators with the ability to configure all aspects of Kuro. This includes the creation and configuration of embedded HTTP servers and their associated security profiles. Its dashboards also provide administrators with real time feedback of the state of Kuro components and allows the embedded trading engines and HTTP servers to be started and stopped.
The UI also provides a full message search facility to allow administrators to quickly find messages that need to be resent or which need further investigation.
- With our previous knowledge of JQuery we were able to quickly implement a full featured UI using the various components provided by Kendo UI. We make heavy use of the Grid component and the various form components. It is very easy to set up a grid which is bound to a remote RESTful datasource.
- Kendo integrates really well with build tools such as Webpack. This allows us to create a modular project and maintain both development and production builds.
- Kendo UI makes it easy to integrate other frameworks into your project. For example, we use Kendo's data binding facility to bind remote data onto Bootstrap widgets. It's great that you are not forced to only use the components provided by Kendo.
- Online documentation is detailed with some good examples.
- Support is decent both via the forums and via ticketing system.
- The Kendo Grid currently allows fixed columns to be created on the left side only. I'd really like this functionality on the right side as well. For some use cases, eg grid row buttons, it makes more sense.
- Perhaps some better starter documentation for things like webpack integration. It can be a bit trial and error while you're getting up to speed with it.
- Addition of some modern layout managers would be welcome. Getting the UI to look right and resize correctly can be a bit of a pain sometimes.
- Kendo UI helped us to get our product to market quickly because of the simplicity of the basic components. We were able to build a functional front end quickly and then release more detailed features at a later date.