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Join the KendoReact Free Components Challenge: $5,000 in Prizes!

dev.to staff on March 12, 2025

We are so delighted to partner with Progress to bring the community a brand new DEV challenge. Running through March 23, the KendoReact Free Compo...
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Chen Weizhi

Hi contestants, after discussing with one of the folks in charge of the contest, I've decided to leave my comment here to inform interested parties that I am offering my mentoring services for free to any and all participants.

As a former participant in other contests and hackathons, and having won numerous of them in the past, I have benefitted greatly from the recognition since then.

For the last couple of years, I have been mentoring and coaching other front-end developers & those interested in UX engineering.

So, I'm here to offer my help once again. This is my way to pay it forward and to help you (the participants) to be one step closer to winning the prize money (just as I did before).

I am usually more active on LinkedIn, so you can always chat me up there: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherman-chen-weizhi?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app

But I can also engage in mentoring conversations via this platform (I only joined fairly recently).

For more serious conversations, we can always do it via Google Meet.

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Kathryn Grayson Nanz

Weizhi is a great resource! I highly encourage anyone looking for a mentor – or just a little technical help – to reach out to him :)

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bakir claude-01

rerr

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Jess Lee

Good luck everyone!!

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Jackson Kasi

Can we use premium components as well?

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Jess Lee

You may, but they won't count towards the 10 Free Component requirement!

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Jackson Kasi

Thank you for your response! 😊

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Arya Teja

Anyone looking for collaborators?

I am new to design and looking for people to collaborate with me.

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Ashish Jha

Hey Arya,

I'm interested in participating in this contest, but since I haven't participated in one before, I was wondering if you'd be open to collaborating as a team.

Let me know what you think.

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Arya Teja

Dm on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/arya-teja-rudraraju?

Or let me know what is your communication platform of choice

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Wamiq-Zahid

I am interested. I have an app idea—basically, it is a dashboard. I need someone who can design it well in Figma using a UI kit.

Let me know if you’re available to collaborate!

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HARISHIKESH

Hi, we can collaborate what kind of Designer you are looking for ?

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Wamiq-Zahid

This is my LinkedIn; share DM me there; I will share the details.linkedin.com/in/wamiq319/

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Chen Weizhi

On the final day of this challenge, I wanted to share THREE key things that I believe you can take away from this experience. These are also things I wished someone else has told me when I first started taking part in similar competitions during the early days of my journey.

dev.to/d2d_weizhi/3-key-takeaways-...

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Kathryn Grayson Nanz

The entire Progress team wishes you all best of luck!! If you have any questions about the components or need help with anything, don't hesitate to reach out :) We can't wait to see what you build!!

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Chen Weizhi

dev.to/d2d_weizhi/3-tipsguidelines...

I know that we are already half-way thru this current contest/challenge, but I still want to use this opportunity to share THREE tips/guidelines that I hope will be helpful to all you contestants out there.

They can also serve as friendly reminders if needed. Hope it helps.

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Aein

Hi

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Sai Shravan Vadla

Is it okay if we implement authentication in our apps? Will the judges go through the trouble of making an account?

(I'm only asking this because in a previous project, I've implemented authentication and not even a single person signed up to even look at my project!)

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ANIRUDDHA ADAK

I’m excited to apply this! 🎉

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Paul

Is there a help thread for Kendo components? In particular, I cannot for my life figure out how to put a link on a breadcrumb item.

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Kathryn Grayson Nanz

Hey there! There's not a help thread here on dev.to, but KendoReact has a very active and helpful forum where you can ask any questions: telerik.com/forums/kendo-ui-react

For the breadcrumbs specifically, it sounds like you're looking for onItemSelect, which you can find more about in the API section of the docs: telerik.com/kendo-react-ui/compone...

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Paul

Can I use an existing project of mine that does not use Kendo components, submitting a version that does?

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Sara Faatz

Yes!

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Engineer Robin 🎭

Best of luck everyone!

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ANIRUDDHA ADAK

Awesome 😍 😍😍

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Julieana Andrade

Wish you all good luck!

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Sidharth Sreejil

Can I use Tailwind along with Kendo UI for styling other things ? Is it gonna put me in a lower judging score?

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Paul • Edited

I would note that the Kendo stylesheet (default or generated from the Theme Builder) has quite a few utility classes, not unlike Tailwind. You might be able to use those in lieu of TW.

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Kathryn Grayson Nanz

Feel free to use Tailwind (or any other styling library)! It won't put you in a lower judging score, but it will disqualify you for the "delightfully designed" subcategory since you won't be using ThemeBuilder to generate the styles. However, if you'd prefer to just focus on the main prize and/or the AIm to Impress subcategory, that's no issue at all!

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websilvercraft

I created a react playground, that includes a kendo react components, to quickly test the components.

You can use it to test kendo components.

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Taizan

Good Luck

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Defx

Great experience with this company! The staff is top notch professional. Have ordered from them several times and each time have been pleasantly surprised by the prompt delivery and quality of the products.

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Precious Kelvin Nwaogu

All the best for everyone!!

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Pratik sharma

Okay will take in this! Awesome

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Kennedy Gitahi

Is next.js allowed or is this strictly a React challenge?

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Kathryn Grayson Nanz

Use of Next.js (or any other React frameworks) is totally fine!

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Saurav

Hello everyone, this my first time in this competition, i am more kind of backend guy, but can also do frontend. Anyone interested in collaboration?
DM me linkedin.com/in/saurav0071/

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Devansh

these links to kendoreact website are not working . then i visited it via google search but it is still not opeing free tier just home page is loaded correctly else is not working as it must be

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Kathryn Grayson Nanz

Sorry you're having trouble! I just checked them now and they all seem to work okay for me – maybe clear your cache and try again? Let me know if you're still unable to access the site.

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Devansh

ohh sorry !! my mistake Just checked it working fine ,Actually at first I tried it using my college wifi which for some firewall reason was blocking it, this time I tried using other wifi its working fine

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ajagbe jubril

hey am new here and also new to coding as well

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Kavuma Herbert

Awesome I have to participate

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Jaweria Adeel

Exciting challenge for React devs Free components and $5K in prizes—time to code and win hcalcuators.com/

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nadeem zia

I enjoyed reading this, good information provided

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David Smith

Awesome! ❤️❤️❤️

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Navin Kumar.R

Anyone up for collaboration ?

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Ravindra Kumar

Very Good 👍

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William

Exciting challenge! $5,000 in prizes is a great incentive to explore KendoReact's 50+ free components. Looking forward to building something amazing with their comprehensive UI suite!

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Nicholas Schultz

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Rajesh Patel

This sounds like an exciting challenge! KendoReact’s powerful UI components can significantly enhance project workflows, especially for teams managing complex projects.

From a project management perspective, having intuitive and well-designed UI components can streamline collaboration and boost productivity. Tools like Teamcamp focus on simplifying project management, and integrating robust UI libraries like KendoReact can further improve user experience and efficiency.

Curious—has anyone used KendoReact to enhance project dashboards or task management systems? Would love to hear your thoughts!

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Jose Muñoz

I am from Colombia, I can participe for the prizes?

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Aein

چه خبر

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Zietjie Abrahams

Hi I need help with this games being played here I'm a fresh person learning about this community thanks for allowing me but I need a guide ❤️love & Light 💡;^ **