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Last Updated: 23 Jan 2020 06:53 by ADMIN
Stacey
Created on: 29 Jul 2014 17:43
Category: Kendo UI for jQuery
Type: Feature Request
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Make angular integration documentation more prominent
Telerik is pushing their support for Angular pretty hard now, and I think that is wonderful. But with it, you're still leaving the documentation on the matter pretty sparse and kind of obscure.

Right now, it is kind of tucked away out of sight here: http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/getting-started/introduction

Though to your credit, you __have__ updated all of the demos with an _Angular_ example, which is __very appreciated__ and I thank you much for it.

I think it would make me, and many others I know, a lot more comfortable if the support for Angular were treated a bit more first class. As long as it continues to be put in out of the way places, it still feels very 'unofficial' or 'tentative'. Could we possibly get a more expansive documentation right on the demos page, perhaps under "tools", or a new actual "Angular" folder on the primary API documentation?
4 comments
ADMIN
Telerik Admin
Posted on: 01 Aug 2014 12:23
Thank you for the extensive feedback! We really appreciate it and sharing your perspective from developer and marketing standpoint is invaluable to us.

I will channel your input to our engineering, marketing and DevRel teams to be taken into consideration, and we'll form an action plan to address the aspects of our AngularJS integration in terms of messaging, blog posts and documentation resources. You will progressively recognize the results when the aforementioned resources are updated on-demand.

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts with us.
Stacey
Posted on: 31 Jul 2014 15:39
I already replied once, but let me add a bit more.

I really think you guys stand to gain a lot more support by making your angular integration at the fore-front of user's public knowledge. 

I'll recapitulate a bit, but right now, support for angular is known as follows;
There are a few blog posts few and far between, that are unclear; I've listed them below.

http://blogs.telerik.com/kendoui/posts/14-02-26/a-few-angular-kendo-ui-best-practices
http://blogs.telerik.com/kendoui/posts/13-06-24/announcing-angular-kendo-ui
http://blogs.telerik.com/kendoui/posts/13-07-19/spa-techchat---kendo-ui-backbonejs-angularjs
http://blogs.telerik.com/kendoui/posts/13-08-22/this-month-in-the-kendo-ui-labs-8-13
http://blogs.telerik.com/kendoui/posts/12-02-16/kendo_ui_mvvm_and_knockoutjs
http://blogs.telerik.com/kendoui/posts/14-05-01/the-kendo-ui-q2-2014-roadmap-is-out!

These are good, they are informative to someone knowing to read them. But even then, the information in them is now disparate and much of it deprecated.

Then, on your demos at http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/, you put an Angular link at the bottom of each demo to show one sample of using Angular with that widget.

Then you have "notes" about it tucked away in http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/getting-started/using-kendo-with/AngularJS/introduction

This is really not enough. Just look at your competition, here is Wijmo's main widget demo page;

http://i.imgur.com/yEMCfln.jpg

Bam. They've gotten you hooked right there. You don't have to explore for it, you know it's supported. You're immediately drawn in. But Kendo is (in my opinion) a superior product, and you guys are just not capitalizing on your integration with the way the docs are presented. 

You have an amazing logo for your integration, too; It would draw people in so much more quickly if it was right in your face from the start. But you're making it so obscure. Just imagine something like this for your front-page on http://www.telerik.com/kendo-ui

http://i.imgur.com/pNl1Hal.jpg

You suddenly draw in a huge amount of customers that are looking for more, you let people know right up front what your widgets can do, and that they can plugin with something they're probably already familiar with. You centralize all of the resources so that it becomes a first class citizen and your users don't feel they're having to "integrate" a third party library, but that you're making the whole thing capable of handling these robust systems they already know!

I know it is a bit presumptuous of me to say any of this, I just have a lot of experience in marketing and I feel there is a lot of missed potential here.
Stacey
Posted on: 30 Jul 2014 15:18
To be honest, that is more or less the answer I was hoping for. That Angular is here to stay, and that you're going to treat it like a first class citizen. 

I spent the weekend learning and using Angular with Kendo and it is a completely different experience than before, or than Knockout-Kendo. 

From the documentation on your site, I thought it was going to be cumbersome. Like trying to fit a square block in a round hole by force. But I quickly found that much of the things convered in the "Getting Started" section were fairly extreme use case. This is very wonderful. 

I look forward to seeing it evolve, and I hope you guys will have more Angular versions of the demos up soon. 
ADMIN
Telerik Admin
Posted on: 30 Jul 2014 08:32
Thank you for the feedback, Ciel. 

Note that we have dedicated documentation regarding our AngularJS integration under the 'Using Kendo With > AngularJS' section of the online help:
http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/getting-started/using-kendo-with/AngularJS/introduction

Our goal is to gradually improve and extend this documentation, to facilitate our clients even further.