Unlock Powerful React UI: 50+ Enterprise-Grade KendoReact Components Now Available for Free

Today, we announce the availability of KendoReact Free! A rich selection of enterprise-grade React UI components—including a fast and powerful data grid—are now yours to install. No signup required.

All React developers can now speed up development and create UI that meets high-quality standards with the help of the freshly launched Progress KendoReact Free!

As of today, 50+ customizable, enterprise-grade KendoReact UI components, including a fast React Data Grid, are available for free on npm—no signup or license needed. The new free tier of KendoReact, the most comprehensive React UI library for business application development, also includes four professionally designed themes, four Figma UI Kits and an upgrade option.

We know that not every project requires the entire arsenal of 120+ KendoReact components and not every worthwhile project is backed by a budget. While many great tools in the React ecosystem were available for free, a gap still needed to be filled: It was hard to find an enterprise-grade foundation set of React components for free. This changes today.

In this blog:

• Who is KendoReact Free For?
• Why You Should Try It
• What’s Included in KendoReact Free
• What’s the Difference Between KendoReact and KendoReact Free?
• Why Stop at 50 Free React Components?
• A Message to KendoReact Clients
• Key Links

Who Is KendoReact Free For?

Any React developer can benefit from free, professional development tools that speed up the creation of compelling applications. The free React component library includes enough feature-rich components to build or enhance a variety of React apps.

For those just starting with React, KendoReact Free allows even early experimentation with coding to yield satisfactory results that will boost their motivation to dive deeper into the library.

And for all those interested in a complete solution to build business apps with or in complex components such as the React Form, React Scheduler or data visualizations, upgrading to the full library is easy once you’ve started with KendoReact Free.

Why You Should Try It

Why wouldn’t you check out a free React UI library that will make you more efficient and your apps of better quality? Build a practical dashboard with our free data grid or offer a friendly and flexible interface for collecting user input with the date picker, dropdown list and auto-complete components.

You can also quickly prototype a new page with the Figma UI Kits and customize it as needed. Alternatively, use one of the pre-built themes to create a beautiful page with minimal design effort. Build high-performance, high-stakes applications with peace of mind, knowing your free React components are part of the stable, well-engineered and lovingly maintained KendoReact library.

What’s Included in KendoReact Free

The 50+ KendoReact Free components available to use in production include everything from a powerful React data grid to essential dropdowns and layout components, plus customization tools that address common development scenarios. Enjoy extensive features, ease of customization, accessibility (AA or AAA), localization, a consistent API and comprehensive documentation. Complement with ThemeBuilder Free to easily customize your components.

To simplify the getting started process, we’ve created a dedicated KendoReact Free documentation page that covers installation, the full list of free React components and features and more. We also built a Project Tracker sample app with a free corresponding page template using only the free KendoReact components. It’s also available in our Visual Studio Code extension as a starter template.

What’s the Difference Between KendoReact and KendoReact Free?

The key differences between KendoReact (the premium UI library) and KendoReact Free (the free tier) are:

Check out the complete list of free components and features.

If you want to use premium KendoReact components or features, you can still start a trial (free 30-day access to the full library of 120+ components) or buy a license for unlimited access.

Why Stop at 50 Free React Components?

You may wonder why we’re not offering the entire KendoReact library for free. It takes a large team of professional React developers and product designers to maintain and improve the library. What’s more, KendoReact license-holders benefit from our legendary support and guaranteed frequent updates that support the latest framework improvements, user demand and other developments.

Additionally, we invest heavily in developer success (constantly evolving our documentation, support and learning resources), accessibility and security. No other business model would allow us to provide for the team and infrastructure behind all this, other than offering a paid tier.

A Message to KendoReact Clients

We understand you might have questions about KendoReact Free, and we want to address them directly. We believe that the existence of KendoReact Free doesn’t diminish the value that won you over as a client in the first place—in fact, it will increase it!

As we spread the word about this and the KendoReact user community multiplies, so will the value of being a KendoReact developer. Your skills will become more valuable and your much bigger community of peers will be more active and engaged. KendoReact Free users will join the KendoReact forums, give feedback and report bugs. As we grow the community, we’ll see more people helping each other out and innovating. The opposite is also true: even great products eventually die out without a growing community.

KendoReact Free is suitable for building many applications or evaluating the library, but license holders retain unmatched value in advanced business scenarios and for company-wide standardization. All of this is available to KendoReact premium clients, but not with the free tier:

• The full library of 120+ components
• Advanced Data Grid features such as React server components (RSC) mode, virtualization and PDF & Excel export
• More advanced components such as Scheduler, Editor and Form
• Data visualization library (Charts, Gauges, Sparkline)
• All newly released components, features and enhancements (with an active subscription or while maintenance is active)
• ThemeBuider Ultimate for advanced styling, collaboration, Figma integration and more (with subscription)
• Page templates and building blocks (with subscription)
• Legendary technical support

KendoReact Free aligns our business with how React developers like to work and expands the overall impact of KendoReact in the ecosystem. The premium KendoReact library you own remains the most comprehensive React UI library for business application development and offers an unmatched boost in productivity, as well as application quality, performance and design consistency to our client base.

Your trust is the foundation of KendoReact. We’re building this product together. In every decision, from roadmap planning to major changes like this, we prioritize your needs. I was part of this process and assure you that your best interests were a key consideration in every choice. Let’s build on our strong partnership, fulfill the intention behind this major step and turn it into a win-win.

Key Links

• KendoReact library overview page
• KendoReact Free documentation page: installation, full list of free components and features, helpful links and more
• Kendo UI Themes overview: Bootstrap, Material, Fluent and Default
• Figma UI Kits overview
• ThemeBuilder app overview
• Page Templates and Building Blocks

Conclusion

Explore KendoReact Free now by visiting our dedicated documentation page or checking out the Project Tracker sample app. If you like what you see, help us spread the word!