Kendo UI Review

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Review of Kendo UI powered by the Slant community.

Kendo UI is an HTML5, jQuery-based framework for building modern web apps. It is broken into core components. Kendo UI Core and it’s open source, and the other is called Kendo UI Professional it is commercial.

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Pros

Pro
Free Core tools

Kendo UI is separated into a commercial and open source frameworks. The core of Kendo UI is in the open source frameworks, but some usability and benefits of Kendo UI are lost without the commercial version.

Pro
Platform-based UI

Kendo knows what device it is being viewed on so it can adjust the UI accordingly. If a user is on a PC the user will see things differently than on a mobile device. Between iOS and Android the user will also notice a different as it pulls from the core UI of those core systems.

Pro
Theme Builder

An interactive tool that has been created to customize an apps theme. Users are able to select from many pre-defined themes, edit them, and download the theme to bring into a project.

Cons

Con
Expensive commercial tools [$699, $1,499]

The other core tools developed with Kendo are the commercial tools. There is the Professional version for $699 that will result in more jQuery UI widgets and client support. The $1499 "DevCraft" Complete edition gets developers the DevCraft .NET toolbox, testing and debugging frameworks and applications, as well as priority support.