- HTML 5 framework relying heavily on jQuery
- Integrates with Angular, React, and Bootstrap frameworks
- Free and open sourced
Some widgets and technical support features are only available for a paid account
- Built and maintained by the company Terlerik
- Strengths
- Offers professional support
- Mostly based on jQuery . easy and cheap to learn
~60% of websites use jQuery
- Most existing jQuery plugins will work with KendoUI
- Weaknesses
- Not all features are free to use
- Documentation is difficult to understand (they want you to pay for tech support)
- Getting Started:
- Step 1: Download and Intall Kendo UI
- Two options: Kendo UI Core or Kendo UI Professional
- Professional costs money (30 day free trial, though)
- Core is free
- For professional, create an account: https://www.telerik.com/login/v2/telerik
- For core, clone the Kendu UI Github repository: https://github.com/telerik/kendo-ui-core
- Step 2: Start Coding!
- The Kendo UI code you just downloaded just needs to be included in your project.s source code
- You just need a few include statements in your source code for the CSS and JavaScript Kendo UI files
KendoUI takes care of the rest!