Angular News

Improve Grid Usability on Mobile Devices

June 12, 2025
Kendo UI 2025 Q2 now includes a fully adaptive Grid, improving usability with enhanced editing, responsive forms and intuitive navigation.

Kendo UI is a comprehensive suite of four JavaScript UI libraries for jQuery, Angular, React, and Vue that enables developers to build responsive web applications for desktop, tablet, and mobile platforms with minimal effort. It provides a wide range of customizable components such as data grids, charts, schedulers, and form controls that streamline development and can reduce time to market by up to 50 percent. With built-in support for theming, accessibility, localization, and state management, Kendo UI is ideal for creating data-driven dashboards, CRM systems, e-commerce portals, and administrative interfaces while maintaining high performance and a consistent user experience.

The Kendo UI 2025 Q2 update brings a major update to the Grid component, focusing on mobile usability. The Grid is now fully adaptive, meaning its layout and controls automatically adjust to different screen sizes. This includes new support for adaptive editing, where input forms rearrange themselves to fit smaller screens more effectively. The update also introduces improved form components and a responsive pager, helping users navigate data more easily on mobile devices. These changes aim to make working with the Grid more practical and efficient when using touch interfaces or limited screen space.

To see a full list of what's new in 2025 Q2 (v19.0.0), see our release notes.

Kendo UI is licensed per developer and has two licensing models: an annual Subscription License and a Perpetual License. The Subscription license provides access to the latest product updates, technical support, and exclusive benefits for a flat annual fee, and must be renewed to continue using the software. The Perpetual license is a one-time purchase granting access to the current released version and includes a one-year subscription for product updates and technical support. After this initial period, users can choose to renew the subscription element to continue receiving updates and support; otherwise, they may continue using the installed version available during their active subscription term but will forgo future updates and support. See our Kendo UI licensing page for full details.

Kendo UI is available individually or as part of the following products:

Add Flexible Side Panels to Your Grids

June 11, 2025
jQWidgets v23.0.0 adds a new side panel in jqxGrid, enabling you to display supplementary data or controls alongside your grid.

jQWidgets is a comprehensive JavaScript UI framework offering a robust collection of over 60 widgets, themes, and utilities for building professional-grade, cross-platform web applications. Built on jQuery, HTML5, and CSS, it provides extensive functionality including data grids, charts, navigation, input validation, and more. jQWidgets simplifies web development, ensuring your applications work seamlessly across desktop browsers, tablets, and smartphones.

The jQWidgets v23.0.0 release adds a new side panel feature in jqxGrid, allowing developers to add custom HTML elements directly into side panels positioned next to the grid. Whether you want to include filters, charts, summaries, help text, or interactive widgets, the side panel supports any type of content.

To see a full list of what's new in v23.0.0, see our release notes.

jQWidgets is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual license 1 year support and maintenance. See our jQWidgets licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our jQWidgets product page.

Develop Angular Apps with Pre-Built UI Controls

June 5, 2025
Angular UI suites provide a comprehensive set of components that reduce development time and ensure consistency across complex web apps.

Angular UI controls are specialized components developed to integrate with applications built on the Angular framework. Typically offered as part of comprehensive UI suites, these controls help developers build highly interactive, data-rich web applications while maintaining performance and design consistency. By encapsulating complex behaviors into modular, reusable elements, Angular UI suites simplify the development process and support faster deployment of robust, enterprise-grade front ends.

Common controls include:

  • Chart components provide visually rich data representations such as line, bar, pie, and radar charts, often with interactive and real-time capabilities.
  • Data Grids deliver advanced tabular data manipulation, including features like sorting, filtering, inline editing, and virtual scrolling for performance at scale.
  • Diagramming components allow users to create and interact with flowcharts, organizational charts, and network diagrams with intuitive drag-and-drop interfaces.
  • Layout controls support dynamic, responsive page structures, including panels, tabs, and docking tools that enhance user navigation.
  • Menu components enable structured, hierarchical navigation menus with support for dynamic content and keyboard accessibility.
  • Rich Text editors bring word-processor-like functionality to web apps, with formatting, media embedding, and collaborative editing tools.
  • Scheduling controls offer calendar views, drag-and-drop scheduling, and appointment management features for time-based interactions.
  • Spreadsheet controls mimic Excel-style functionality, supporting cell formulas, filtering, and grid editing within the browser.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our Angular UI suites comparison.

Explore Angular Controls

Speed Up Data Entry and Reduce Mistakes

June 3, 2025
Autocomplete provides users with real-time input guidance to reduce errors and improve efficiency.

Autocomplete is a feature that dynamically suggests valid inputs as the user types, based on the current context or previously entered values. It enhances productivity by reducing the amount of typing needed and helps prevent errors or invalid entries by guiding users towards acceptable inputs. Ultimately, it enhances the overall user experience by making interfaces more intuitive and efficient for both technical and non-technical users.

Several Angular data editor collections include autocomplete features, such as:

  • DevExtreme Complete Data Editors (part of DevExtreme Complete) lets you enhance text input with real-time suggestions, supporting custom templates and several data sources.
  • Kendo UI for Angular Data Editors (part of Kendo UI) allows you to provide users with dynamic suggestions, supporting multiple selections and customizable templates.
  • Wijmo Input and Editors (part of Wijmo by MESCIUS) lets you implement autocomplete with filtered suggestions based on user input.
  • jQWidgets Data Editors (part of jQWidgets) enables autocomplete in input fields, displaying a dropdown of matching items to assist users in making accurate selections.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our comparison of Angular data editor collections.

Compare Angular Data Editors

Add Precision to Time-Based Data

June 2, 2025
LightningChart JS v7.1 brings nanosecond-level precision to time-based charts, enabling ultra-detailed analysis of high-frequency temporal data.

LightningChart JS is a JavaScript/TypeScript library developed by LightningChart that is particularly well-suited for data-intensive visualizations, offering exceptionally fast rendering capabilities thanks to its use of WebGL. This makes it a strong choice for applications that require real-time data updates, such as financial platforms, engineering tools, scientific research dashboards, and industrial monitoring systems. It provides high-performance, 2D, 3D, and real-time charting controls and a comprehensive suite of visualizations including candlestick, bar, line, and various technical indicators and drawing tools. This library enables software developers to craft interactive technical analysis tools without the need for server-side setup as it runs completely on the client device.

The LightningChart JS v7.1 update enhances its Date-Time axis capabilities by introducing support for nanosecond-resolution timestamps, allowing users to zoom into microsecond and nanosecond ranges for more granular time-based data analysis—well beyond the previous millisecond limitations. To utilize this feature, timestamps should generally be supplied as BigInt64. This update positions LightningChart JS among the few web charting libraries explicitly supporting nanosecond precision, making it a strong choice for applications requiring high-resolution temporal data visualization.

To see a full list of what's new in v7.1, see our release notes.

LightningChart JS is licensed per developer and is available as an annual license with 1 year support. See our LightningChart JS licensing page for full details.

For more information, see our LightningChart JS product page.