Regular Developer Review of Kendo UI
November 16, 2019

Regular Developer Review of Kendo UI

Monika Rankhambe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Kendo UI

We are using it in our web-based product SUPERLOAD to develop web interface (using HTML5 controls) for different product pages which mostly includes many product features. Kendo UI gives us the flexibility and control to display that data in many ways with all the various components that it provides. Kendo UI is a great product to save developer time and deliver a business class product. Being able to quickly add/remove/customize features to meet users' wants/needs on items has helped free up the development team's time to focus more on advanced design, rather than focusing on the basics.
  • Easy front end implementation using the MVC controls in the views on the front end.
  • Simple to create MVC controllers on the backend which can easily provide a meaningful context of the incoming HTTP request.
  • Wide variety of tools available on the platform with good looking skins to choose from.
  • Documentation lacks details for a lot of widgets.
  • Some widgets are not too flexible.
  • Demos/examples usually are too simple and you don't have day-by-day usage examples.
  • Faster development as we can focus more on business logic than in UI.
I believe Kendo UI is perfect for scenarios where you need a lot of customization and flexibility. In our company, we are used to customizing some widgets and it's easy and quick to do it. I would not recommend it if JavaScript/JQuery knowledge lacks on your team.