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Kendo UI vs Shield UI

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When comparing Kendo UI vs Shield UI, the Slant community recommends Shield UI for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript UI frameworks built with jQuery plugins?” Shield UI is ranked 1st while Kendo UI is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose Shield UI is:

There are more than 20 types of charts available for use.

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What are the best JavaScript UI frameworks built with jQuery plugins?

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.

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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.

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Many chart types available

There are more than 20 types of charts available for use.

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Wrappers for ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC and Apache Wicket available

Each chart can be implemented to ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC applications, with detailed documentation and guides for each.

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Supports combining different charts

Each of the available charts has documentation and guides available for every different implementation (JavaScript, ASP.NET etc.)

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Supports combining different charts

You can combine different charts (they can be of the same type or even different types of charts) to display data correlations.

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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.