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Syncfusion vs. Other Angular UI Libraries: Why We Chose Syncfusion in a Large Project

Ashutosh Pipriye — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 14:02:40 +0000

We evaluated multiple Angular UI libraries—Angular Material, PrimeNG, Kendo UI, and Syncfusion—for a large enterprise project. Here's why Syncfusion was the winner.

When building a large-scale enterprise application, every technology choice matters—especially when it comes to the UI library. In our recent project—a full-stack application using Angular 17, .NET 8, SQL Server, and Azure—we evaluated several Angular UI libraries before ultimately choosing Syncfusion.
This post explains why we made that decision, how Syncfusion compared to others, and what we learned in the process.

Project Overview

We were tasked with building an internal enterprise dashboard with:

Large data grids (1k+ rows),
Complex forms and reporting,
Real-time updates using SignalR,
Document generation (PDF/Excel),
Role-based dashboards with configurable widgets.

We evaluated the following Angular UI libraries:

1. Syncfusion

Provides over 80+ UI components covering essential and advanced needs.
Best suited for enterprise applications and data visualization.
Supports Angular, React, Vue, and Blazor.
Offers both free (community edition) and paid versions.
Advanced Grid features: Virtual scrolling, pagination, CRUD operations, filtering, and exporting.
Rich Data Visualization: Charts, Gauges, Maps, and Pivot Tables.
Robust Document Processing: PDF Viewer, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint processing components.

2. PrimeNG

Open-source with a large community support.
Provides extensive UI elements for forms, tables, and charts.
Integrated with PrimeFlex for CSS utilities.
Rich themes and animations.

3. NG-Zorro

Based on Ant Design, optimized for business applications.
Developed and maintained by Alibaba.
Strong focus on enterprise UI components.
Internationalization (i18n) support.

4. Angular Material

Official UI library from Google.
Implements Material Design principles.
Provides a minimalistic yet powerful UI component suite.
Best suited for modern, lightweight applications.

5. Kendo UI for Angular

Commercial library with dedicated support.
Highly performance-optimized for large datasets.
Extensive documentation and enterprise-level features.

6. DevExtreme for Angular

Best suited for high-performance and data-heavy applications.
Offers charts, grids, interactive UI elements.
Optimized for seamless cross-platform development.

What We Looked For

Here were our key evaluation criteria:

Criteria	Why It Mattered
Component Coverage	We needed ready-to-use components like Grid, Scheduler, PDF Viewer, etc.
Performance with Large Data	Some views handled 10,000+ records with filtering/sorting.
Integration with Angular 17	Compatibility with signals, standalone APIs, and change detection.
Customization and Theming	Required to match enterprise branding.
Documentation and Support	Needed clear examples and reliable support.
Backend Compatibility (.NET)	Bonus points for libraries that played well with .NET services.
Reporting/Exporting Features	PDF, Excel generation support out of the box.
Licensing Model	Straightforward licensing without usage-based billing.

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	Syncfusion	PrimeNG	NG-Zorro	Angular Material	Kendo UI	DevExtreme
Number of Components	80+	50+	40+	30+	80+	70+
Free or Paid?	Community & Paid	Free	Free	Free	Paid	Paid
Performance	High	Medium	High	Medium	High	High
Customization	High	High	Medium	Low	High	High
Best For	Enterprise apps	General use	Business UI	Modern design	Data-heavy apps	Interactive UIs
Data Grid Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Basic	Yes	Yes

Why We Chose Syncfusion

1. Enterprise-Ready Components

Syncfusion's Angular UI suite includes over 80+ components, covering everything from simple inputs to advanced modules like Spreadsheet, Scheduler, Pivot Table, and PDF Viewer.

Use Case: We used the Syncfusion Grid extensively for features like:

Infinite scrolling

Virtualization

Excel-like filtering

Custom templates

Row drag & drop We also leveraged their Scheduler, DocumentEditor, and Rich Text Editor with minimal configuration.

2. Performance with Large Datasets

We benchmarked grid rendering with ~10,000 records. While other libraries struggled, Syncfusion Grid performed with smooth scrolling and real-time updates.
We combined:

Angular’s OnPush change detection,
Syncfusion’s enableVirtualization and lazyLoad,
Server-side paging via .NET API. Result: Great UX without performance issues.

3. Seamless Angular 17 Integration

Full support for Angular Standalone Components
Signal compatibility
Tree-shakable modules (after selective imports)
Reactive forms and template-driven forms support This made our Angular 17 migration much easier.

4. Reporting & Document Generation

Syncfusion’s PDF, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint libraries integrated easily with .NET backend.
Saved development time for invoice/reporting modules.

5. Support and Documentation

Detailed API docs, working stackblitz examples, active ticket support.
Resolved a blocker within 24 hours via their enterprise support.

6. Unified Design Language

Custom themes and theme studio allowed consistent branding across the app.

7. Licensing Fit Our Needs

Flat licensing per developer—easy to budget.
No hidden costs based on usage or app size.

Syncfusion with Angular

1. Installation

Install the complete UI library:

npm install @syncfusion/ej2-angular-ui-components

2. Importing Syncfusion Module

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { GridModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-grids';
@NgModule({
 declarations: [/* Components */],
 imports: [BrowserModule, GridModule],
 bootstrap: [/* Root Component */]
})
export class AppModule {}

3. Component Usage Examples
1. Grid Example

<ejs-grid [dataSource]="data" allowPaging="true">
<e-columns>
<e-column field="id" headerText="ID"></e-column>
<e-column field="name" headerText="Name"></e-column>
<e-column field="age" headerText="Age"></e-column>
</e-columns>
</ejs-grid>

export class AppComponent {
 data = [
   { id: 1, name: 'John Doe', age: 28 },
   { id: 2, name: 'Jane Doe', age: 25 },
 ];
}

2. Dropdown Example

<ejs-dropdownlist id="dropdown" [dataSource]="countries"></ejs-dropdownlist>

export class AppComponent {
 countries = ['USA', 'India', 'Canada', 'Germany'];
}

3. DatePicker Example

<ejs-datepicker></ejs-datepicker>

Using Syncfusion with Other Frameworks

Syncfusion provides UI components that are compatible with multiple frameworks beyond Angular, including React, and Vue. Below are step-by-step guides for integrating **Syncfusion **with these frameworks.

1. React

npm install @syncfusion/ej2-react-grids

import { GridComponent, ColumnsDirective, ColumnDirective } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-grids';
<GridComponent dataSource={data} allowPaging={true}>
<ColumnsDirective>
<ColumnDirective field='id' headerText='ID' />
<ColumnDirective field='name' headerText='Name' />
</ColumnsDirective>
</GridComponent>

2. Vue

npm install @syncfusion/ej2-vue-grids

<template>
<ejs-grid :dataSource="data" :allowPaging="true">
<e-columns>
<e-column field='id' headerText='ID'></e-column>
<e-column field='name' headerText='Name'></e-column>
</e-columns>
</ejs-grid>
</template>

Advantages and Disadvantages of Syncfusion

Advantages

Wide range of enterprise-ready components
High performance with large datasets
Supports Angular, React, Vue, Blazor
Extensive documentation and support

Disadvantages

Advanced features require a paid license

Conclusion

Syncfusion is ideal for enterprise and data-heavy applications
PrimeNG and Angular Material are great for general UI needs
Choose based on your project’s size, complexity, and budget

syncfusion

Ashutosh Pipriye — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 14:15:07 +0000

Completed Hacktobefest Challenge

Ashutosh Pipriye — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 12:47:34 +0000

It was a great experience as open source is a great way to learn and give back to the community !
This was my first #hacktoberfest participation :)

Getting Started: Create and Manage Cloud Resources: Challenge Lab

Ashutosh Pipriye — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 07:26:07 +0000

The steps to solve Create and Manage Cloud Resources: Challenge Lab on the Google Cloud Platform (Qwiklabs)

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Topics tested:

Create an instance.
Create a 3 node Kubernetes cluster and run a simple service.
Create an HTTP(s) Load Balancer in front of two web servers.

Setup

Before you click the Start Lab button
Read these instructions. Labs are timed and you cannot pause them. The timer, which starts when you click Start Lab, shows how long Google Cloud resources will be made available to you.

This Qwiklabs hands-on lab lets you do the lab activities yourself in a real cloud environment, not in a simulation or demo environment. It does so by giving you new, temporary credentials that you use to sign in and access Google Cloud for the duration of the lab.

What you need
To complete this lab, you need:

Access to a standard internet browser (Chrome browser recommended).
Time to complete the lab.

Note: If you already have your own personal Google Cloud account or project, do not use it for this lab.

Note: If you are using a Pixelbook, open an Incognito window to run this lab.

Challenge scenario

You have started a new role as a Junior Cloud Engineer for Jooli Inc. You are expected to help manage the infrastructure at Jooli. Common tasks include provisioning resources for projects.

You are expected to have the skills and knowledge for these tasks, so don't expect step-by-step guides to be provided.

Some Jooli Inc. standards you should follow:

Create all resources in the default region or zone, unless otherwise directed.
Naming is normally team-resource, e.g. an instance could be named nucleus-webserver1
Allocate cost effective resource sizes. Projects are monitored and excessive resource use will result in the containing project's termination (and possibly yours), so beware. This is the guidance the monitoring team is willing to share; unless directed use f1-micro for small Linux VMs and n1-standard-1 for Windows or other applications such as Kubernetes nodes.

Task 1: Create a project jumphost instance

Make sure you:

name the instance nucleus-jumphost
use the machine type f1-micro
use the default image type (Debian Linux)

In the Cloud Console, on the top left of the screen, select Navigation menu > Compute Engine > VM Instances:

Name for the VM instance : nucleus-jumphost
Region : leave Default Region
Zone : leave Default Zone
Machine Type : f1-micro (Series - N1)
Boot Disk : use the default image type (Debian Linux)
Create.

Click Check my progress to verify the objective.
Task Completed...

Task 2: Create a Kubernetes service cluster

The team is building an application that will use a service. This service will run on Kubernetes.

You need to:

Create a cluster (in the us-east1 region) to host the service
Use the Docker container hello-app (gcr.io/google-samples/hello-app:2.0) as a place holder, the team will replace the container with their own work later
Expose the app on port 8080

Activate Cloud Shell

gcloud config set compute/zone us-east1-b

gcloud container clusters create nucleus-webserver1

gcloud container clusters get-credentials nucleus-webserver1

kubectl create deployment hello-app --image=gcr.io/google-samples/hello-app:2.0

kubectl expose deployment hello-app --type=LoadBalancer --port 8080

kubectl get service

Click Check my progress to verify the objective.
Task Completed...

Task 3: Setup an HTTP load balancer

We will serve the site via nginx web servers, but we want to ensure we have a fault tolerant environment, so please create an HTTP load balancer with a managed instance group of two nginx web servers. Use the following to configure the web servers, the team will replace this with their own configuration later.

You need to:

Create an instance template
Create a target pool
Create a managed instance group
Create a firewall rule to allow traffic (80/tcp)
Create a health check
Create a backend service and attach the manged instance group
Create a URL map and target HTTP proxy to route requests to your URL map
Create a forwarding rule

Do the following commands in cloud shell to Setup an HTTP load balancer

Create startup.sh file

    cat << EOF > startup.sh
    #! /bin/bash
    apt-get update
    apt-get install -y nginx
    service nginx start
    sed -i -- 's/nginx/Google Cloud Platform -'"\$HOSTNAME"'/' 
    /var/www/html/index.nginx-debian.html
    EOF

1 .Create an instance template :

gcloud compute instance-templates create nginx-template \
--metadata-from-file startup-script=startup.sh

2 .Create a target pool :

gcloud compute target-pools create nginx-pool

3 .Create a managed instance group :

gcloud compute instance-groups managed create nginx-group \
--base-instance-name nginx \
--size 2 \
--template nginx-template \
--target-pool nginx-pool

gcloud compute instances list

4 .Create a firewall rule to allow traffic (80/tcp) :

gcloud compute firewall-rules create www-firewall --allow tcp:80

gcloud compute forwarding-rules create nginx-lb \
--region us-east1 \
--ports=80 \
--target-pool nginx-pool

gcloud compute forwarding-rules list

5 .Create a health check :

gcloud compute http-health-checks create http-basic-check

gcloud compute instance-groups managed \ 
set-named-ports nginx-group \
--named-ports http:80

6 .Create a backend service and attach the manged instance group :

gcloud compute backend-services create nginx-backend \
--protocol HTTP --http-health-checks http-basic-check --   
global


gcloud compute backend-services add-backend nginx-backend \
--instance-group nginx-group \
--instance-group-zone us-east1-b \
--global

7 .Create a URL map and target HTTP proxy to route requests to your URL map :

gcloud compute url-maps create web-map \
--default-service nginx-backend


gcloud compute target-http-proxies create http-lb-proxy \
--url-map web-map

8 .Create a forwarding rule :

gcloud compute forwarding-rules create http-content-rule \
--global \
--target-http-proxy http-lb-proxy \
--ports 80

gcloud compute forwarding-rules list

Wait for for extra 10 mins to Create the website behind the HTTP load balancer and to get 100 points in lab !!!

Click Check my progress to verify the objective.
Task Completed...

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Launching One windows EC-2 Instance with IIS server On AWS

Ashutosh Pipriye — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 08:00:34 +0000

Launch one T2 micro type windows server instance on AWS. Configure an IIS server with a default web page.

About EC2
Setup EC2 Instance
Step wise installation.
Setup remote desktop connection.
Configure an IIS server with default page
start our created webpage.

Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2)

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Using Amazon EC2 eliminates your need to invest in hardware upfront, so you can develop and deploy applications faster. You can use Amazon EC2 to launch as many or as few virtual servers as you need, configure security and networking, and manage storage. Amazon EC2 enables you to scale up or down to handle changes in requirements or spikes in popularity, reducing your need to forecast traffic.

Setup EC2 Instance

Sign up on AWS at https://aws.amazon.com/ and make an account. You will need to enter your billing and credit card information.
Note: You should delete instances you no longer need to ignore any additional billing unknowingly.

Find and Select Amazon EC2 from listed products and services.
Click the button: "Launch Instance"

Step 1: Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI): This is the operating system your virtual machine in the cloud will be.

Step 3: Configure Instance Details: Leave the default settings. Click "Next: Add Storage"

Step 4: Add Storage: Leave the default settings. Click "Next: Add Tags"

Step 5: Add Tags: Create a key and value.

Step 6: Configure Security Group: Check the radio button labeled "create a new security group" and give it a name and description. Make sure there is an RDP type listed and add HTTP and HTTPS. Click "Review and Launch"

Step 7: Review Instance Launch: Click "Launch" The following window should appear. Select "Create a new key pair" and type in a name. Click "Download." Make sure you save this file!!! Click "launch instance" You should be redirected to a page where you can click "view instances" to see all your instances. Your new EC2 instance should appear and may take a few moments to initialize.

Setup remote desktop connection.

In the Connect To Your Instance popup, click Download Remote Desktop File to download the RDP file, already preconfigured for your EC2 instance.
In the same popup, click Get Password to obtain the authentication password.
Load your private key and click Decrypt Password. The password will then be visible in your screen.

You are now connected to your Windows Server machine.

Configure Internet Information Services (IIS)

Internet Information Services (IIS) is an extensible web server created by Microsoft and available in Windows machines. IIS may or may not be enabled by default in the Windows Server EC2 instance.

In order to enable IIS, launch Server Manager and select Manage > Add Roles and Feature

2.In the Add Roles and Features Wizard, Server Roles page, find and check “Web Server (IIS)”

3.In the Roles Services for Web Server Role (IIS), check the desired options to be include in the installation
Note: The installation may take several minutes.

4.Go to explorer, then in the new tab give localhost and IIS server is launched.

5.If everything is installed correctly, you should be able to enter the IP address of your EC2 instance in any web browser, and see the IIS default page

Webpage

For hosting our html web page, go to C drive 🡪 inetpub 🡪 wwwroot 🡪file.
By deleting default files in that folder, we got the error and finally replaced the file with our web(html) file and worked.

You should be able to enter the IP address of your EC2 instance in any web browser.