Slant community chat on DiscoursePro MVVM support
Kendo UI also provides a powerful MVVM framework. It's not really required that you use it though, or you can use another framework (like Backbone) with Kendo. But the Kendo MVVM has some powerful features and supports data binding.
Pro Great documentation
The documentation for Kendo UI is thorough and comprehensive. It explains every part of the framework in an understandable way. Plus, it also has beginners guides and tutorials which can get you quickly up to speed even if you don;t have any experience with Kendo.
Con Commercial for the full set
You have to pay to get the license to use all the tools.
Pro Compliant with web standards
Zino adopts various w3c conventions such as WAI-ARIA, SVG, and HTML5 Canvas.
Pro Has fallbacks for unsupported HTML5 features
Although Zino supports all modern HTML5 features, it also has graceful fallbacks in case a user is using a browser that does not support those features.
Con No theme support
Zino UI provides developers with four themes out of the box. But if a developer wants to create their own custom theme, Zino does not have a theme builder.
Pro Comprehensive documentation
The Sencha documentation is comprehensive, with detailed documentation and a number of examples displaying the various widgets, tools and themes.
Con Can be expensive
The framework is a commercial package, and the recent decision to start with a minimum of 5 users may rule out smaller developer teams or startups. Recently, they have started a program that allow essentially what are contractors to purchase single licenses, but not individual, independent develop...
Con Sencha CMD is bloated and frustrating to work with
To do any meaningful development, you are stuck with CMD. There is a gulp task that will handle the JS concatenation, but there is nothing outside of CMD that can handle theming in their ecosystem. In addition, CMD is based on Java, and is very heavy to run (600MB+ on Windows 10 to watch for chan...
Pro Not only web apps
Dojo is not used only for web development. The widgets featured in Dojo can also be used to create mobile user interfaces.
Pro Highly modular
Dojo Toolkit is a highly modular framework. It uses AMD modules and the module system is extremely powerful and easy to learn.
Con Not able to keep up with the future of the web
The web is moving towards web components, something that Dojo does not implement. In its current state Dojo badly needs more abstraction and it also needs to provide some form of modern application architecture.
Pro Cross-browser compatibility
jQuery UI, like jQuery has great cross-browser and backward compatibility with the most popular browsers on the market.
Pro Globalization support
jQuery UI has internationalization (globalization) support.
Con Slow development
jQuery UI development is rather slow and new features or components are not released frequently.
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