[muzmath]

I seperated out my suggestions into UI and Frameworks. Kendo does many things, a non-standard MVVM framework is one of them: http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/mvvm/index

Kendo also gives multiple ways to initiate their widgets, one of them being the standard jquery widget way.

Also bootstrap is more than just CSS, which is why it's distributed with a JS file. Samem with material design.

Frankly, I think the approach Kendo takes trys to do way to much, and in effect they make it difficult to do beyond what was accounted for.

If you simply are creating internal tools for a business to use and don't care about aesthetics or having great control/UX experience, Kendo is possibly an easy hand held solution for your company. On the other hand, the type of company who has this as a goal is likely a terrible company to work for and will not lead to very interesting work.

[blumkvist]

That very much depends on what you're doing. For front-enders, probably yes. There are other job functions though. UI is very tedious to get done and Kendo offers an easy way out, leaving you to do your main job, be it business intelligence, custom predictive analytics or something else.

[muzmath]

Definitely, which is why I mentioned the following:

> If you simply are creating internal tools for a business to use and don't care about aesthetics or having great control/UX experience, Kendo is possibly an easy hand held solution for your company. On the other hand, the type of company who has this as a goal is likely a terrible company to work for and will not lead to very interesting work.