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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.
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
Pros of Kendo UI
- Collection of controls15
- Speed5
- Multi-framework support4
- Mobile4
- AngularJS2
- Built-in router2
- Good Documentation1
Pros of Material-UI
- React136
- Material Design82
- Ui components58
- CSS framework28
- Component23
- Looks great14
- Good documentation11
- Responsive11
- LESS9
- Ui component7
- Open source7
- Code examples6
- Flexible5
- JSS4
- Angular3
- Very accessible3
- Fun3
- Supports old browsers out of the box3
- Interface2
- Designed for Server Side Rendering2
- Easy to work with1
- Css1
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Cons of Kendo UI
- Massive footprint4
- Slow3
- Spotty Documentation1
- Expensive1
- Poor customizability1
Cons of Material-UI
- Hard to learn. Bad documentation31
- Hard to customize25
- Hard to understand Docs19
- Bad performance6
- Extra library needed for date/time pickers6
- For editable table component need to use material-table5
