Telerik open sources world’s largest library of UI tools and JavaScript framework

BULGARIA: Telerik announced the release of Telerik Kendo UI Core, a package of free and open industry-leading UI tools and JavaScript framework features, including Telerik Kendo UI Mobile.

Telerik has released this package to give back to the developer community for its long-time support for Telerik and its products. The package will be released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, allowing developers to use the library in both commercial and non-commercial projects and also to contribute to the library itself.

"Telerik has always been a company for developers, by developers. We understand the challenges of modern development and want to ease those challenges by open sourcing a significant portion of our world-class Kendo UI JavaScript library," said Todd Anglin, executive VP, Product Strategy, Telerik.

"We also want to encourage our community to rapidly advance UI innovation through their own contributions, making Telerik Kendo UI a truly collaborative effort."

The Kendo UI Core open source offering includes:

* 38 UI widgets, including all of Kendo UI Mobile, and all of the core framework features, such as templates, data binding, and input validation.

* Access to thousands of tests and best practices.

* Tight integrations with Bootstrap and UI widgets ready for use with popular libraries like AngularJS.

* Public availability via a GitHub repository and Telerik.com.