I was looking for a rich text editor with KendoReact, and I happened upon the react wrapper for kendo ui. This confused me. So is the wrapper just a wrapper around the kendo ui javascript library that lets me use it in a react application whereas KendoReact is a full on react implementation of the components? Which should we use? Can/should I use BOTH? Is the react wrapper for each kendo ui component limited in any way? If I can just use the wrapper, why does KendoReact exist?
If I use the wrapper, does the Kendo UI code get included in my webpack bundle.js? or is that a separate include?
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Hello, John,
The wrappers are the jQuery components that have a code that allows easy integration with a React application. The downside is that jquery has to be included and some integrations like templates only work with scripting templates.
The native components come with zero external dependencies and are fully compatible with all React features.
As making 70+ feature full components from zero is taking time, we made the wrappers until the native equivalent is available. We recommend using the native version of the components and using the wrappers only if the native components is not available or is missing a very important feature.
The native Editor is currently in development, this is beta version:
https://www.telerik.com/kendo-react-ui-develop/components/editor/
Regards,
Stefan
Progress Telerik
The wrappers are the jQuery components that have a code that allows easy integration with a React application. The downside is that jquery has to be included and some integrations like templates only work with scripting templates.
The native components come with zero external dependencies and are fully compatible with all React features.
As making 70+ feature full components from zero is taking time, we made the wrappers until the native equivalent is available. We recommend using the native version of the components and using the wrappers only if the native components is not available or is missing a very important feature.
The native Editor is currently in development, this is beta version:
https://www.telerik.com/kendo-react-ui-develop/components/editor/
Regards,
Stefan
Progress Telerik
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