KendoUI is the right fit for us for a great web UX
May 21, 2018
KendoUI is the right fit for us for a great web UX
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Kendo UI
We use Kendo UI to deliver a rich web-based responsive custom software package for several clients. Have used Kendo with jQuery for a number of years and am pleased with the library, features, and compatibility the product offers. Telerik/Progress is constantly updating and expanding the product to address features and issues requested and found by the community. Training and support are excellent and the user community is very active and helpful.
- Kendo is often being updated with new features which makes it easy to stay on top of emerging technology.
- jQuery is fully supported in Kendo - it is easy to drop in Kendo widgets and access elements of the widgets through jQuery
- Great Training, Support, and User Community involvement. Lots of great resources to use when learning and implementing the product.
- In the past, we have had issues where updates to Kendo break existing code. This has become less common in the last few years with the power of Progress helping out Telerik.
- Have had some occasions with high memory usage with Kendo, but Telerik is addressing these issues.
- The product is not fully open-sourced. They have a base (core) version available on Github, but developers will need to purchase a full license for all features and enhanced support.
- Using Kendo speeds up development for us since we don't have to source widget libraries from multiple vendors. Almost all of what we require is in the Kendo UI product.
- We subscribe to the Devcraft Ultimate edition which includes licenses for Kendo UI, MVC, ASP.NET, and other dev resources. It has saved us development time and money.
- The commercial version of Kendo UI is more fully-featured than the open-source "core" edition, so developers who want to use all features will need to invest in a license.
We have been Telerik users since 2008 and were pleased when the Kendo UI product was made available. We did evaluate other products such as Ruby, ASP.net, and Syncfusion, but decided that Kendo not only provided us with the toolset we needed but we could continue with a single vendor for all of our UX needs.