This is a submission for the KendoReact Free Components Challenge.
What I Built
Mining is one of the world’s most hazardous industries. Safety officers and workers often face challenges with fragmented tools for reporting and monitoring, which makes it harder to:
- Log incidents efficiently
- Track and analyze safety patterns
- Maintain compliance with strict regulations
- Communicate effectively across teams To address this, I created MineSafety — a responsive, accessible, and data-driven web application designed to:
✅ Track workplace incidents in real time
✅ Visualize safety trends and performance metrics
✅ Provide a modern, intuitive interface for both workers and administrators
✅ Foster better communication through an integrated chatbot
Built with React (Vite + TypeScript), TailwindCSS, and KendoReact free components, MineSafety demonstrates how quickly a professional-grade safety management system can be developed with the right tools.
Key Features
- 📊 Dashboard Analytics – Real-time KPIs for active, resolved, and critical incidents.
- 📝 Incident Reporting Workflow – Log new incidents with categories, severity, and date pickers.
📈 Data Visualization – Charts, gauges, and progress indicators to track safety performance.
🤖 Built-in Chatbot – Powered by KendoReact Conversational UI, allowing users to interact, report issues, or retrieve summaries in a conversational way.📤 Data Export – Export reports to Excel and PDF in a single click for compliance and auditing.
📌 Notifications – Instant alerts for critical incidents using the Notification component.
📂 File Upload – Upload supporting documents or images when logging an incident.
🗂️ Organizational View – OrgChart to visualize safety staff and reporting hierarchy.
🖥️ Accessibility & Responsiveness – Optimized for both desktop and mobile, with clean navigation.
Demo
🔗 Live Demo: https://mine-safety.vercel.app
💻 Source Code:www.github.com/alphonsekazadi/MineSafety
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KendoReact Components Used
MineSafety integrates a wide range of KendoReact free components for both UI and functionality:
🔹 Navigation & Layout
- AppBar
- Drawer
- Button
- Dialog, DialogActionsBar
🔹 Forms & Inputs
- Input, TextArea, Switch
- DropDownList
- DatePicker
- Upload
🔹 Data Display & Visualization
- Grid, GridColumn
- ListView
- OrgChart
- Chart (ChartSeries, ChartSeriesItem, ChartLegend, ChartCategoryAxis, ChartCategoryAxisItem)
- CircularGauge
- ProgressBar
🔹 Export & Reporting
- ExcelExport
- PDFExport
🔹 Feedback & Alerts
- Notification, NotificationGroup
🔹 Conversational UI
- Chat, Message
With over 15 KendoReact components, MineSafety demonstrates not just the breadth of the library, but also how seamlessly these components integrate into a real-world application.
[Code Smarter, Not Harder prize category] AI Coding Assistant Usage
I leveraged the KendoReact AI Coding Assistant to accelerate development and validate best practices.
📌 One example of used prompts :
@kendoreact Generate a responsive layout using KendoReact AppBar and Drawer, with AppBar fixed on top and Drawer collapsible on mobile.
His result
import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { AppBar, AppBarSection, AppBarSpacer } from '@progress/kendo-react-layout';
import { Drawer, DrawerItem } from '@progress/kendo-react-layout';
import { Button } from '@progress/kendo-react-buttons';
import { menuIcon } from '@progress/kendo-svg-icons';
import './App.css'; // Optional: for custom CSS styling
const App = () => {
const [drawerExpanded, setDrawerExpanded] = useState(false);
const toggleDrawer = () => {
setDrawerExpanded(!drawerExpanded);
};
return (
<div>
<AppBar themeColor="primary">
<AppBarSection>
<Button
type="button"
fillMode="flat"
svgIcon={menuIcon}
onClick={toggleDrawer}
/>
</AppBarSection>
<AppBarSpacer style={{ width: 8 }} />
<AppBarSection>
<h1>My Application</h1>
</AppBarSection>
</AppBar>
<Drawer
expanded={drawerExpanded}
mode="overlay" // Use "push" to push content instead of overlay
onSelect={toggleDrawer}
>
<DrawerItem title="Home" />
<DrawerItem title="About" />
<DrawerItem title="Services" />
<DrawerItem title="Contact" />
{/* Add more DrawerItems here as needed */}
</Drawer>
<div className="page-content">
{/* Main content goes here */}
<h2>Welcome to My Application!</h2>
<p>This is an example of a responsive AppBar and Drawer setup.</p>
</div>
</div>
);
};
export default App;
The assistant instantly scaffolded a working layout, saving hours of manual coding. I then customized the output with TailwindCSS and TypeScript to match the project’s design.
I also used it to configure the KendoReact Grid (sorting, filtering, and column props), ensuring accessibility and great performance from the start.
By combining AI-assisted code generation with human creativity, I achieved faster development, fewer bugs, and a more polished UI.
💡 Final Thoughts
The KendoReact Free Components Challenge has been an eye-opening experience. I discovered how powerful, elegant, and developer-friendly KendoReact truly is:
- Accessible by design – every component is WCAG-compliant out of the box.
- Highly productive – instead of building grids, charts, or dialogs from scratch, I focused on solving the real problem.
- Visually consistent – components blend together perfectly for a professional-grade UI.
- With just the free library, I built MineSafety — a project that could realistically improve safety management in the mining industry. This proves the challenge’s theme: with KendoReact, you really can Build Without Boundaries.
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