Kendoreact Project Management App

This is a submission for the KendoReact Free Components Challenge.

What I Built

I’m excited to share my newest development: a Project Management Dashboard that’s just as functional as it is fun to poke!

This little beast lets me:

I Manage projects in a sortible, paginated grid (because who doesn’t love a good table?)

Handle new projects in a sleek modal (because pop-ups are my love language).

--- Manage tasks per project—create, edit, delete, you name it.

--- Look at a calendar to see what’s due today (spoiler: everything).

Export my project list to CSV cos let’s be real, I’m a data hoarder.

I built this here with a dash of caffeine and determination, and a sprinkling of free components from KendoReact, and I’m pretty darn proud of what I came up with.

Demo

Source Code: Code

Dashboard: Because deadlines creep up like ninjas.

Task Management: Edit tasks like a boss.

Project Grid: Check out that sorting action!

Want to peek under the hood? My code’s just hanging out in this GitHub repo (act like it’s real — I’ll push it once I finish freaking out over whether it’s in the right shape or not).

KendoReact Experience

And it’s real good, because coming across KendoReact’s free components was like stumbling on a treasure box in my attic—except there were no mothballs in there. It took 16 KendoReact components to realize this dashboard and they already made my developer heart sing. This is what I did to put them to work:

Grid & GridColumn:

The backbone of my project list Sorting, pagination, row-clicking goodness? Yes, please. I threw in a custom ProgressCell to give those progress bars some color — red for “uh-oh,” yellow for “meh” and green for “nailed it.”

Calendar:

To keep me honest about deadlines. It’s like a digital nag that’s like, “Hey, you have stuff due today — get a move on!”

DropDownList:

Status and priority filters, dropdowns in my forms It’s so smooth, I nearly forgot how much I hated writing `` tags by hand.

Button & ButtonGroup:

On the constant action buttons—adding projects, exporting CSVs, editing tasks. They’re the unsung heroes of my UI.

Notification & NotificationGroup:

message alerting success, errors, and warnings. I have them gliding in from the bottom-right corner as a cheeky lil sidekick.

ProgressBar:

Visualizes project progress in overview tab It’s straightforward and elegant, and gratifying to watch fill up.

TabStrip & TabStripTab: 

Breaks my project details down into tabs—Overview, Tasks, Add Task. Makes it neat, because my brain is not.

Card, CardHeader, CardTitle, CardBody: 

i use to structure my layout with style. I’ve got cards for the calendar, status summary, and project list — fancy, right?

A search bar:

A form field that can enter data. I outlined them with blue borders because, you know, blue’s my vibe.

KendoReact was a dream to work with—it felt similar to someone giving me a pre-assembled LEGO set rather than a bunch of bricks.

The free tier provided me with everything I needed to build a solid dashboard without needing to ask my boss for a budget increase.

Ok, I kind of had to wrestle with some inline styles (old habits die hard), but KendoReact’s components were so intuitive that I spent more time sipping coffee than debugging.

The documentation? Chef’s kiss. The community? Supportive as heck.

I’m sold, may even get a Grid tattooed on my arm (jk… or am I? ????).

Credit for this project: “You don’t need a paid toolkit to create something cool!

Using KendoReact’s free components, a sprinkle of creativity, and a dash of humor, I built a dashboard that’s useful and a joy to use.

If you’ll excuse me, I have some imaginary deadlines to pretend to adhere to.

???? Happy coding, folks!