third-party-net-replacements

Replace igGrid with AG Grid Community for dense enterprise grids needing sorting, filtering, and pagination, or TanStack Table with shadcn/ui when full design control matters. Choose AG Grid Enterprise only for paid features like pivoting, grouping with aggregation, or master-detail.

Use pdfkit for server-side generation of new PDFs with custom layouts, and pdf-lib for editing existing PDFs such as filling forms, merging, splitting, and watermarking. Use @react-pdf/renderer when report layouts should be expressed as React components.

Migrate Hangfire to BullMQ backed by Redis, which supports retries, exponential backoff, delayed jobs, and repeatable cron-style jobs. For simple in-process schedules use node-cron, and for cloud-native timers use Azure Functions timer triggers or Container Apps Jobs.

AG Grid provides batteries-included sorting, filtering, pagination, and CSV export, making it fastest for feature-rich grids. TanStack Table is headless, so you build all controls with shadcn primitives, which suits design-system consistency and forms-adjacent tables.

Use pino as the default structured JSON logger with pino-http for request logging and correlation IDs, or winston when the team needs multiple custom transports. Replace ELMAH with Application Insights or Sentry for unhandled exception capture.

Keep Kendo React or Syncfusion React when grids, schedulers, or editors are pervasive and an active license exists, since feature parity reduces migration risk. Otherwise default to shadcn/ui plus AG Grid and specialized libraries for each capability.