UI Suites News

Enable AI-Powered Chat in Modern Web Apps

November 12, 2025
Infragistics Professional 25.2 introduces a flexible AI chat interface with full control over layout, messaging, and user interaction.

Infragistics Professional is a comprehensive suite of UI components designed to accelerate the development of high-performance, visually rich applications across several platforms. It provides developers with a vast collection of tools for building data-driven interfaces, including advanced grids, charts, and reporting features for web, desktop, and mobile environments.

The Infragistics Professional 25.2 release introduces an AI Chat control for React and Web Components. It provides a solid foundation for building responsive, real-time conversational interfaces in your applications. Whether you're creating a customer support tool, a collaborative chat workspace, or an AI assistant, this component includes essential features such as text messaging, file attachments, quick reply suggestions, and typing indicators. Unlike static message lists, it manages input, interaction, and rendering dynamically, ensuring a smooth user experience. The component also offers a robust rendering API that allows full customization of layout and visual elements, giving you control over how your chat interface looks and behaves.

To see a full list of what's new in version 25.2, see our release notes.

Infragistics Professional is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual License with a 1, 2 or 3 year support and maintenance subscription. See our Infragistics Professional licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our Infragistics Professional product page.

Unify Design with Centralized Theme Control

October 29, 2025
UI theming simplifies visual consistency by managing styles like color and typography from one place, supporting branding and faster customization.

UI suite theming allows developers and designers to define a unified visual style across all components. By controlling colors, typography, spacing, and other design elements from a central configuration, teams can ensure consistency, maintain brand identity, and improve updates. Theming also enables effortless customization, allowing teams to align a product’s look with branding, support light and dark modes, or adapt interfaces for different clients. This approach accelerates development and enhances user experience, making applications feel polished, cohesive, and professional. Common use cases include enterprise dashboards, multi-brand SaaS platforms, and cross-platform applications that require a consistent appearance on web, desktop, and mobile.

Several JavaScript UI suites offer theming support, including:

  • DevExtreme Complete by DevExpress lets you create consistent, brand-aligned interfaces with powerful theming tools that unify styles across web and mobile applications.
  • Wijmo by MESCIUS allows you to customize UI components effortlessly, ensuring cohesive, responsive designs and theme integration throughout your applications.
  • jQWidgets facilitates unified, professional styling with theme customization features that adapt your application’s look and feel to any brand or platform.
  • Infragistics Ignite UI enables complete visual control with flexible theming options that deliver polished, consistent user experiences across enterprise-grade web applications.

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

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Build Rich Navigation with Blazor Menus

October 10, 2025
Blazor UI libraries deliver flexible menu components with nested items, visual customization, and integration into modern web layouts.

Menu controls in a Blazor UI suite are user interface components that provide structured navigation through an application by organizing links or actions into hierarchical menus. These controls are particularly useful in web applications that require intuitive, accessible, and dynamic navigation elements. In Blazor, menu controls can be rendered either through server-side or WebAssembly-based components, allowing developers to build interactive menus using Razor syntax and C#. They support features like multi-level nesting, icons, templates, and binding to data sources, making them adaptable to a wide range of layouts and user experiences. Menu controls integrate smoothly with routing and layout systems, enabling developers to maintain a consistent navigation experience across the application.

Several Blazor UI suites provide Menu controls, including:

  • DevExpress ASP.NET and Blazor lets you build hierarchical menus with templates, icons, and orientation support, including a responsive layout with collapsing behavior.
  • Telerik UI for Blazor allows you to create multi-level menus with item templates, icons, and URL-based navigation that integrates with Blazor routing.
  • Nevron Open Vision for .NET provides context and ribbon menu controls for Blazor WebAssembly, with theme support, icons, checkable items, and multi-click interaction.
  • Blazorise offers a responsive Bar component that supports horizontal and vertical modes, with nested dropdowns and layout-friendly navigation options.
  • Smart UI (Smart HTML Elements) provides a dedicated Blazor Menu control with nested items, multiple display modes, rich styling, and context menu support.

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

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Boost Usability with a Modern, Adaptive UI

October 6, 2025
ABP Platform delivers a modern UI that offers adaptable navigation, brand styling, and global language support for a more intuitive user experience.

ABP Platform is a comprehensive framework designed to accelerate the development of enterprise software solutions by offering an opinionated architecture built on best practices for .NET and ASP.NET Core. It equips developers with the essential infrastructure, production-ready startup templates, pre-built application modules, and modern UI themes needed to build robust, scalable, and maintainable applications. With powerful tooling, detailed guides, and extensive documentation, ABP Platform improvs implementation, reduces repetitive tasks, and ensures consistency across projects. Ideal for organizations seeking to enhance productivity and maintain high-quality standards, it enables teams to focus on delivering business value while the platform handles architectural complexity and automation.

The ABP Platform includes a modern UI that focuses on simplicity, flexibility, and usability. It features a menu for effortless navigation, quick access to frequently used pages, and breadcrumb support for switching between sections. Developers can customize the menu layout, adjust content width to suit different screen preferences, and apply brand-specific color schemes for a consistent visual identity. With built-in RTL language support, the interface is fully adaptable to global audiences. Together, these enhancements enable faster workflows, a more intuitive experience, and greater control over design.

The ABP Platform is available as a Team, Business or Enterprise license, which entitles developers to use the platform's Pro features and provides software updates and technical support for 1 year. See our ABP Platform licensing page for full details.

For more information, visit our ABP publisher page.

Elevate UI Design with Modern Tailwind Theme

October 6, 2025
jQWidgets v24.0.0 adds a Tailwind CSS-based theme, giving a utility-first approach to building responsive interfaces with flexible UI customization.

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 v24.0.0 update introduces a new Tailwind CSS-based theme that improves the process of styling and customizing user interfaces. By leveraging Tailwind’s utility-first framework, it enables flexible UI customization directly within markup, reducing the need for custom CSS and complex overrides. This integration ensures consistent design across components, promotes cleaner code, and aligns with modern front-end development practices. This release allows teams to deliver responsive, cohesive, and visually consistent applications with greater speed and precision.

To see a full list of what's new in v24.0.0, 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.