Overview

React

Stacks178.2K

Followers147.0K

Votes4.1K

GitHub Stars240.3K

Forks49.7K

jQuery

Stacks194.7K

Followers70.6K

Votes6.6K

GitHub Stars59.6K

Forks20.5K

Kendo UI

Stacks289

Followers359

Votes33

GitHub Stars2.6K

Forks1.9K

Kendo UI vs React vs jQuery: What are the differences?

Key Differences between Kendo UI, React, and jQuery

Kendo UI, React, and jQuery are popular frameworks used in web development. Here are the key differences between them:

Code Structure and Syntax: Kendo UI is built using JavaScript/jQuery and provides a set of ready-to-use UI components. It follows a declarative syntax and requires less coding effort. React, on the other hand, is a JavaScript library that follows a component-based architecture and uses JSX (a combination of JavaScript and XML) for defining UI components. jQuery, also a JavaScript library, offers a simpler syntax compared to React.
Performance and Efficiency: Kendo UI provides a wide range of easily customizable UI widgets, making it efficient for building interactive web apps. However, it adds an additional layer of abstraction which can impact performance. React, as a virtual DOM-based library, offers excellent performance by efficiently updating only the necessary components. jQuery, being a lightweight library, also offers good performance but may require extra effort for managing complex UI updates.
Portability and Compatibility: Kendo UI is ideal for developing cross-platform web applications and is compatible with all modern web browsers. It also provides mobile-specific components for building responsive web apps. React, being a JavaScript library, can be used for developing web, native, and desktop applications. It is compatible with major web browsers as well. jQuery, being one of the oldest JavaScript libraries, offers wide compatibility across different browsers and platforms.
Learning Curve and Community Support: Kendo UI has a steeper learning curve due to its extensive documentation and a wide range of APIs. It has good community support with forums and tutorials available. React has gained popularity for its simplicity in writing reusable UI components, making it easier to learn. It has a strong and active community, with a wealth of online resources. jQuery has a relatively low learning curve and has been widely adopted, resulting in an extensive community support network.
UI Customization and Theming: Kendo UI provides numerous UI themes out-of-the-box, allowing easy customization of the UI components. It also supports custom theme creation. React, being a library, does not provide built-in UI theming capabilities. However, there are several third-party libraries and tools available that can be integrated for styling and theming React components. jQuery is highly customizable and provides various options for UI theming and customization.
Integration and Ecosystem: Kendo UI, as a complete UI framework, integrates well with other JavaScript libraries and frameworks like Angular and Vue.js. It also offers additional tools for data visualization and app development. React, being a library, can be easily integrated into existing projects without any conflicts. It has a vast ecosystem with numerous third-party libraries and tools available. jQuery, being a standalone library, can also be easily integrated with other frameworks and libraries.

In Summary, the key differences between Kendo UI, React, and jQuery lie in their code structure and syntax, performance and efficiency, portability and compatibility, learning curve and community support, UI customization and theming, and integration and ecosystem.

Advice on React, jQuery, Kendo UI

Cyrus

Aug 15, 2019

Needs adviceon

Vue.js

React

I find using Vue.js to be easier (more concise / less boilerplate) and more intuitive than writing React. However, there are a lot more readily available React components that I can just plug into my projects. I'm debating whether to use Vue.js or React for an upcoming project that I'm going to use to help teach a friend how to build an interactive frontend. Which would you recommend I use?

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Simon

Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH

Apr 22, 2020

Decidedon

Vuetify

Vue.js

Nuxt.js

Our whole Vue.js frontend stack (incl. SSR) consists of the following tools:

Nuxt.js consisting of Vue CLI, Vue Router, vuex, Webpack and Sass (Bundler for HTML5, CSS 3), Babel (Transpiler for JavaScript),
Vue Styleguidist as our style guide and pool of developed Vue.js components
Vuetify as Material Component Framework (for fast app development)
TypeScript as programming language
Apollo / GraphQL (incl. GraphiQL) for data access layer (https://apollo.vuejs.org/)
ESLint, TSLint and Prettier for coding style and code analyzes
Jest as testing framework
Google Fonts and Font Awesome for typography and icon toolkit
NativeScript-Vue for mobile development

The main reason we have chosen Vue.js over React and AngularJS is related to the following artifacts:

Empowered HTML. Vue.js has many similar approaches with Angular. This helps to optimize HTML blocks handling with the use of different components.
Detailed documentation. Vue.js has very good documentation which can fasten learning curve for developers.
Adaptability. It provides a rapid switching period from other frameworks. It has similarities with Angular and React in terms of design and architecture.
Awesome integration. Vue.js can be used for both building single-page applications and more difficult web interfaces of apps. Smaller interactive parts can be easily integrated into the existing infrastructure with no negative effect on the entire system.
Large scaling. Vue.js can help to develop pretty large reusable templates.
Tiny size. Vue.js weights around 20KB keeping its speed and flexibility. It allows reaching much better performance in comparison to other frameworks.

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Cyrus

Aug 15, 2019

Needs advice

Simple datepickers are cumbersome. For such a simple data input, I feel like it takes far too much effort. Ideally, the native input[type="date"] would just work like it does on FF and Chrome, but Safari and Edge don't handle it properly. So I'm left either having a diverging experience based on the browser or I need to choose a library to implement a datepicker since users aren't good at inputing formatted strings.

For React alone there are tons of examples to use https://reactjsexample.com/tag/date/. And then of course there's the bootstrap datepicker (https://bootstrap-datepicker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/), jQueryUI calendar picker, https://github.com/flatpickr/flatpickr, and many more.

How do you recommend going about handling date and time inputs? And then there's always moment.js, but I've observed some users getting stuck when presented with a blank text field. I'm curious to hear what's worked well for people...

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Detailed Comparison

React	jQuery	Kendo UI
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.	jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.	Fast, light, complete: 70+ jQuery-based UI widgets in one powerful toolset. AngularJS integration, Bootstrap support, mobile controls, offline data solution.
Declarative; Component-based; Learn once, write anywhere	-	Ultimate Performance with Minimum Resources;Mobile-Friendly and Responsive;Built-In, Customizable Themes ;Open Source Core
Statistics
GitHub Stars 240.3K	GitHub Stars 59.6K	GitHub Stars 2.6K
GitHub Forks 49.7K	GitHub Forks 20.5K	GitHub Forks 1.9K
Stacks 178.2K	Stacks 194.7K	Stacks 289
Followers 147.0K	Followers 70.6K	Followers 359
Votes 4.1K	Votes 6.6K	Votes 33
Pros & Cons
Pros 837 Components 673 Virtual dom 579 Performance 509 Simplicity 442 Composable Cons 41 Requires discipline to keep architecture organized 30 No predefined way to structure your app 29 Need to be familiar with lots of third party packages 13 JSX 10 Not enterprise friendly	Pros 1263 Cross-browser 957 Dom manipulation 809 Power 660 Open source 610 Plugins Cons 6 Large size 5 Sometimes inconsistent API 5 Encourages DOM as primary data source 2 Live events is overly complex feature	Pros 15 Collection of controls 5 Speed 4 Mobile 4 Multi-framework support 2 AngularJS Cons 4 Massive footprint 3 Slow 1 Poor customizability 1 Awdawd 1 Spotty Documentation
Integrations
No integrations available	No integrations available	Bootstrap AngularJS

What are some alternatives to React, jQuery, Kendo UI?

AngularJS

AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

jQuery UI

Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.

Svelte

If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.

Flux

Flux is the application architecture that Facebook uses for building client-side web applications. It complements React's composable view components by utilizing a unidirectional data flow. It's more of a pattern rather than a formal framework, and you can start using Flux immediately without a lot of new code.

Famo.us

Famo.us is a free and open source JavaScript platform for building mobile apps and desktop experiences. What makes Famo.us unique is its JavaScript rendering engine and 3D physics engine that gives developers the power and tools to build native quality apps and animations using pure JavaScript.

Riot

Riot brings custom tags to all browsers. Think React + Polymer but with enjoyable syntax and a small learning curve.

Marko

Marko is a really fast and lightweight HTML-based templating engine that compiles templates to readable Node.js-compatible JavaScript modules, and it works on the server and in the browser. It supports streaming, async rendering and custom tags.

Preact

Preact is an attempt to recreate the core value proposition of React (or similar libraries like Mithril) using as little code as possible, with first-class support for ES2015. Currently the library is around 3kb (minified & gzipped).