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Kendo UI Cookbook
Kendo UI is a one-stop library that allows you to build applications for web and mobile platforms using HTML5 and JavaScript. The library includes several widgets that allow you to build compelling web applications rapidly. Building web applications for web and mobile platforms using modern web technologies is now easy with the Kendo UI library. This cookbook contains practical recipes that you can apply in your everyday projects, and build compelling applications effortlessly. It gets you started with the application framework and then guides you through various widgets that you can readily use in your project with minimum configuration. It also provides recipes that you can use to build web applications for various mobile platforms while maintaining a single codebase. This book is an easy-to-follow guide full of hands-on examples that allows you to learn and build visually compelling web applications using the Kendo UI library.This book will do wonders for web developers having knowledge of HTML and Javascript and want to polish their skills in building applications using the Kendo UI library.
250 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2014
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September 2, 2014
If you go over to the Kendo UI site, you can see their awesome demos. But if you want to implement those controls in your project, then there is little help on the Kendo site. They just dump the code with no explanation and you need to be an expert to understand their documentation. There is a huge gap on the Kendo site. This book nicely address that gap. Actually you get more benefit if you use this book in tandem with KendoUI.com. In addition this book goes beyond the typical demos on the Kendo site and provides much more information. It alerts the common gotchas and goes in depth.
I believe that the goal of this book is to provide easy to use recipes for complex controls. If this is correct then it did a good justification.
The good:
- This book provides wealthy of details for each receipe with its "How to do it" and "How it works" sections
- This book even goes one step ahead and provides advance use of the controls with the "There's more" section. Some of these tips are not found on the Kendo site
- This book is a must read if you are building mobile web applications.
Improvements:
- I would have liked this book more if they used the same demos as on the Kendo site. This helps reader to get a feel of the controls while reading the recipes.
- As AngularJS is gaining popularity, this book should have provide some recipes using Kendo's angular directives
The bad:
- In my opinion this book fell short of covering the most widely used KendoUI form controls such as DatePickers, textboxes etc.
- This book starts with the complex framework chapter which may scare beginners. If you a beginner, just skip the first chapter
- Sometimes I feel that this book is not properly organized. It does not provide me a story. I believe this is due to the book's goal to cover the complex controls
Bottom line:
- If you are a UI developer or designer who wants to build web sites with awesome Kendo controls then this book is for you.
- If you are a backend developer and looking to use Kendo form controls then look elsewhere.
I believe that the goal of this book is to provide easy to use recipes for complex controls. If this is correct then it did a good justification.
The good:
- This book provides wealthy of details for each receipe with its "How to do it" and "How it works" sections
- This book even goes one step ahead and provides advance use of the controls with the "There's more" section. Some of these tips are not found on the Kendo site
- This book is a must read if you are building mobile web applications.
Improvements:
- I would have liked this book more if they used the same demos as on the Kendo site. This helps reader to get a feel of the controls while reading the recipes.
- As AngularJS is gaining popularity, this book should have provide some recipes using Kendo's angular directives
The bad:
- In my opinion this book fell short of covering the most widely used KendoUI form controls such as DatePickers, textboxes etc.
- This book starts with the complex framework chapter which may scare beginners. If you a beginner, just skip the first chapter
- Sometimes I feel that this book is not properly organized. It does not provide me a story. I believe this is due to the book's goal to cover the complex controls
Bottom line:
- If you are a UI developer or designer who wants to build web sites with awesome Kendo controls then this book is for you.
- If you are a backend developer and looking to use Kendo form controls then look elsewhere.
January 4, 2015
Pros
Kendo UI is a one-stop library that allows you to build applications for web and mobile platforms using HTML5 and JavaScript.This book is a practical guide that aims to help you learn how to utilize Kendo UI with your apps.
I have read the 2nd chapter of this book which is "The Kendo UI Grid".
It's a really good one. So I'm going to share the thoughts of mine about this chapter with you.Let's start it.
The Kendo UI library comes with a powerful Grid component.The author has explained how to display tabular data and provide various functionalities, such as sorting based on a selected column, filtering data, using pagination, and editing the tabular data, etc.
It has been explained by using step by step approach with the colourful images.Which is really awesome.
After that I have learned the Kendo UI Grid component's various configuration options to customize the way the Grid is displayed and also saw the various APIs to manipulate the Grid's content.
The most interesting section on this chapter is where 'Using the virtualization mechanism to improve the performance of the Grid '.Here it has been explained how to improve the performance of the grid when we load the large set of data by using 'virtualization' concept on the Kendo UI Grid.It's really awesome.
Cons
The only complain where I have about this book is with the formatting of the Code snippets.Currently it's in black and white (mono) way. As a reader, I would like to have a color syntax for the code snippets.If so,It'll give a huge value for the packt's books.
You can read it more on my Tech blog :
http://sampathloku.blogspot.com/2015/...
Kendo UI is a one-stop library that allows you to build applications for web and mobile platforms using HTML5 and JavaScript.This book is a practical guide that aims to help you learn how to utilize Kendo UI with your apps.
I have read the 2nd chapter of this book which is "The Kendo UI Grid".
It's a really good one. So I'm going to share the thoughts of mine about this chapter with you.Let's start it.
The Kendo UI library comes with a powerful Grid component.The author has explained how to display tabular data and provide various functionalities, such as sorting based on a selected column, filtering data, using pagination, and editing the tabular data, etc.
It has been explained by using step by step approach with the colourful images.Which is really awesome.
After that I have learned the Kendo UI Grid component's various configuration options to customize the way the Grid is displayed and also saw the various APIs to manipulate the Grid's content.
The most interesting section on this chapter is where 'Using the virtualization mechanism to improve the performance of the Grid '.Here it has been explained how to improve the performance of the grid when we load the large set of data by using 'virtualization' concept on the Kendo UI Grid.It's really awesome.
Cons
The only complain where I have about this book is with the formatting of the Code snippets.Currently it's in black and white (mono) way. As a reader, I would like to have a color syntax for the code snippets.If so,It'll give a huge value for the packt's books.
You can read it more on my Tech blog :
http://sampathloku.blogspot.com/2015/...
September 10, 2014
I've been using Telerik's ASP.NET AJAX controls for a few years so I was interested in learning about the Kendo UI tools. For anyone unfamiliar with it, Kendo UI is Telerik's
HTML5/Javascript framework. A subset of these recently went open source.
This book will quickly get you started with a mix of the controls. It starts by explaining the Kendo UI framework which includes templating and then starts working through a
selection of the controls from the Grid up to Window. The book then goes into the Mobile Framework and Widgets before wrapping up with the DataViz visualization components.
This cookbook breaks each topic/recipe up into three sections: "How to do it..." which gives you the basic format/structure, "How it works..." which explains the output, and
"There's more..." which goes a little deeper into different options and scenarios.
I would recommend this book to anyone just getting started with Kendo UI. This book is a good introduction to the toolkit and makes for a good reference to keep on hand. For the
experienced Kendo user this book may not go deep enough for you. For a deeper dive you may need to consult the online documentation. I would have liked to have seen some discussion
of the scheduling controls as well as more in depth information about the framework and DataSources.
http://www.packtpub.com/kendo-ui-cook...
HTML5/Javascript framework. A subset of these recently went open source.
This book will quickly get you started with a mix of the controls. It starts by explaining the Kendo UI framework which includes templating and then starts working through a
selection of the controls from the Grid up to Window. The book then goes into the Mobile Framework and Widgets before wrapping up with the DataViz visualization components.
This cookbook breaks each topic/recipe up into three sections: "How to do it..." which gives you the basic format/structure, "How it works..." which explains the output, and
"There's more..." which goes a little deeper into different options and scenarios.
I would recommend this book to anyone just getting started with Kendo UI. This book is a good introduction to the toolkit and makes for a good reference to keep on hand. For the
experienced Kendo user this book may not go deep enough for you. For a deeper dive you may need to consult the online documentation. I would have liked to have seen some discussion
of the scheduling controls as well as more in depth information about the framework and DataSources.
http://www.packtpub.com/kendo-ui-cook...
September 10, 2014
I've been using Telerik's ASP.NET AJAX controls for a few years so I was interested in learning about the Kendo UI tools. For anyone unfamiliar with it, Kendo UI is Telerik's
HTML5/Javascript framework. A subset of these recently went open source.
This book will quickly get you started with a mix of the controls. It starts by explaining the Kendo UI framework which includes templating and then starts working through a
selection of the controls from the Grid up to Window. The book then goes into the Mobile Framework and Widgets before wrapping up with the DataViz visualization components.
This cookbook breaks each topic/recipe up into three sections: "How to do it..." which gives you the basic format/structure, "How it works..." which explains the output, and
"There's more..." which goes a little deeper into different options and scenarios.
I would recommend this book to anyone just getting started with Kendo UI. This book is a good introduction to the toolkit and makes for a good reference to keep on hand. For the
experienced Kendo user this book may not go deep enough for you. For a deeper dive you may need to consult the online documentation. I would have liked to have seen some discussion
of the scheduling controls as well as more in depth information about the framework and DataSources.
http://www.packtpub.com/kendo-ui-cook...
HTML5/Javascript framework. A subset of these recently went open source.
This book will quickly get you started with a mix of the controls. It starts by explaining the Kendo UI framework which includes templating and then starts working through a
selection of the controls from the Grid up to Window. The book then goes into the Mobile Framework and Widgets before wrapping up with the DataViz visualization components.
This cookbook breaks each topic/recipe up into three sections: "How to do it..." which gives you the basic format/structure, "How it works..." which explains the output, and
"There's more..." which goes a little deeper into different options and scenarios.
I would recommend this book to anyone just getting started with Kendo UI. This book is a good introduction to the toolkit and makes for a good reference to keep on hand. For the
experienced Kendo user this book may not go deep enough for you. For a deeper dive you may need to consult the online documentation. I would have liked to have seen some discussion
of the scheduling controls as well as more in depth information about the framework and DataSources.
http://www.packtpub.com/kendo-ui-cook...
October 12, 2014
There are lots of things to learn when you are using Kendo UI because it has much more components that you could imagining.
I've been using Kendo UI Telerik with JavaScript/HTML5 for 4 months and I like it.
I really recommend this book, I found it quite useful. It provides you a lot of samples that they are clear and they are different of the Kendo UI platform samples, it's perfect when you look for a complement learning.
It's a practical book that helps you understand what you are doing, and how to do it.
I've been using Kendo UI Telerik with JavaScript/HTML5 for 4 months and I like it.
I really recommend this book, I found it quite useful. It provides you a lot of samples that they are clear and they are different of the Kendo UI platform samples, it's perfect when you look for a complement learning.
It's a practical book that helps you understand what you are doing, and how to do it.
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