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Kendo UI vs Supersonic: What are the differences?
Developers describe Kendo UI as "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. On the other hand, Supersonic is detailed as "UI Hybrid Framework – Ionic, AngularJS, Cordova". Supersonic UI is a game-changer. It's an Ionic fork that changes the way you think about hybrid app performance. Supersonic's declarative UI style makes building complex mobile apps a breeze. In the background, the seamless interplay of native UI and HTML5 bakes an end-result that is 100% indistinguishable from any native app.
Kendo UI and Supersonic can be categorized as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by Kendo UI are:
- Ultimate Performance with Minimum Resources
- Mobile-Friendly and Responsive
- Built-In, Customizable Themes
On the other hand, Supersonic provides the following key features:
- Mobile-first CSS components
- Native UI components, with CSS styling
- Declarative UI
Kendo UI is an open source tool with 2.16K GitHub stars and 1.73K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Kendo UI's open source repository on GitHub.
Full disclosure; I worked for both Telerik and Infragistics in Developer Relations for these projects. From my point of view, neither is a clear "winner" in this space. Kendo has some nice features and Ignite doesn't have and vice versa. We ended up picking Kendo because we needed to settle on one of these, and most of our clients already owned Kendo because it came with some other Telerik product. That's it. It could have very easily gone the other way, but Telerik kinda won the ground war here, so...
Having said that, the only tool we really use is the grid (the rest of them are no better than Flowbite/HTML5/etc. controls. And even then, we really need to be leveraging the advanced functionality of the grid before telling the client they'll have to buy a support license.
Pros of Kendo UI
- Collection of controls15
- Speed5
- Multi-framework support4
- Mobile4
- AngularJS2
- Built-in router2
- Good Documentation1
Pros of Supersonic
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Cons of Kendo UI
- Massive footprint4
- Slow3
- Awdawd1
- Spotty Documentation1
- Expensive1
- Poor customizability1