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Kendo UI vs Material-UI: What are the differences?

What is Kendo UI? Fast, light, complete: 70+ jQuery-based UI widgets in one powerful toolset. Fast, light, complete: 70+ jQuery-based UI widgets in one powerful toolset. AngularJS integration, Bootstrap support, mobile controls, offline data solution.

What is Material-UI? React components for faster and easier web development. Build your own design system, or start with Material Design. React components for faster and easier web development. Build your own design system, or start with Material Design.

Kendo UI belongs to "Javascript UI Libraries" category of the tech stack, while Material-UI can be primarily classified under "Front-End Frameworks".

"Collection of controls" is the top reason why over 5 developers like Kendo UI, while over 51 developers mention "React" as the leading cause for choosing Material-UI.

Kendo UI and Material-UI are both open source tools. It seems that Material-UI with 48.6K GitHub stars and 11K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Kendo UI with 2.16K GitHub stars and 1.73K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Material-UI has a broader approval, being mentioned in 69 company stacks & 80 developers stacks; compared to Kendo UI, which is listed in 15 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

Decisions about Kendo UI and Material-UI

Fonts and typography are fun. Material Design is a framework (developed by Google) that basically geeks out on how to assemble your typographical elements together into a design language. If you're into fonts and typography, it's fantastic. It provides a theming engine, reusable components, and can pull different user interfaces together under a common design paradigm. I'd highly recommend looking into Borries Schwesinger's book "The Form Book" if you're going to be working with Material UI or are otherwise new to component design.

https://www.amazon.com/Form-Book-Creating-Printed-Online/dp/0500515085

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Pros of Kendo UI
Pros of Material-UI
  • 15
    Collection of controls
  • 5
    Speed
  • 4
    Multi-framework support
  • 4
    Mobile
  • 2
    AngularJS
  • 2
    Built-in router
  • 1
    Good Documentation
  • 136
    React
  • 82
    Material Design
  • 58
    Ui components
  • 28
    CSS framework
  • 23
    Component
  • 14
    Looks great
  • 11
    Good documentation
  • 11
    Responsive
  • 9
    LESS
  • 7
    Ui component
  • 7
    Open source
  • 6
    Code examples
  • 5
    Flexible
  • 4
    JSS
  • 3
    Angular
  • 3
    Very accessible
  • 3
    Fun
  • 3
    Supports old browsers out of the box
  • 2
    Interface
  • 2
    Designed for Server Side Rendering
  • 1
    Easy to work with
  • 1
    Css

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Cons of Kendo UI
Cons of Material-UI
  • 4
    Massive footprint
  • 3
    Slow
  • 1
    Spotty Documentation
  • 1
    Expensive
  • 1
    Poor customizability
  • 31
    Hard to learn. Bad documentation
  • 25
    Hard to customize
  • 19
    Hard to understand Docs
  • 6
    Bad performance
  • 6
    Extra library needed for date/time pickers
  • 5
    For editable table component need to use material-table

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What is Kendo UI?

Fast, light, complete: 70+ jQuery-based UI widgets in one powerful toolset. AngularJS integration, Bootstrap support, mobile controls, offline data solution.

What is Material-UI?

Material UI is a library of React UI components that implements Google's Material Design.

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What are some alternatives to Kendo UI and Material-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.
Bootstrap
Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
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.
Ignite UI
HTML & JavaScript toolkit to build modern browser experiences on any device – desktop, tablet or phone. Designed for the enterprise - high-performance, touch-first, responsive apps – with AngularJS directives, Bootstrap support and ASP.NET MVC server-side wrappers.
Angular Material
Sprint from Zero to App. Hit the ground running with comprehensive, modern UI components that work across the web, mobile and desktop. It allows to create material styled angular apps fast and easy.
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