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Ionic

A beautiful front-end framework for developing cross-platform apps with web technologies like Angular and React.
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What is Ionic?

Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript.
Ionic is a tool in the Cross-Platform Mobile Development category of a tech stack.
Ionic is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Ionic's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Ionic?

Pros of Ionic
248
Allows for rapid prototyping
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Hybrid mobile
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It's angularjs
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Free
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It's javascript, html, and css
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Ui and theming
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Great designs
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Mv* pattern
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Reuse frontend devs on mobile
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Extensibility
31
Great community
29
Open source
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Responsive design
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Good cli
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So easy to use
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Angularjs-based
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Beautifully designed
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Widgets
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Allows for rapid prototyping, hybrid mobile
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Typescript
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Quick prototyping, amazing community
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Easy setup
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Angular2 support
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Fast, easy, free
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Because of the productivity and easy for development
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Base on angular
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So much thought behind what developers actually need
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Super fast, their dev team is amazingly passionate
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Easy to use
6
It's Angular
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UI is awesome
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Hot deploy
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Material design support using theme
3
Amazing support
3
It's the future
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Angular
3
Allow for rapid prototyping
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Easy setup, development and testing
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Ionic creator
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User Friendly
2
It's angular js
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Complete package
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Simple & Fast
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Fastest growing mobile app framework
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Best Support and Community
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Material Design By Default
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Cross platform
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Documentation
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Because I can use my existing web devloper skills
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Removes 300ms delay in mobile browsers
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Responsive
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Native access
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Typescript support
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Ionic conect codeigniter
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Fast Prototyping
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Ionic's Features

  • Performance obsessed
  • Utilizes Angular and React
  • Native focused
  • Beautifully designed
  • Based on Web Components

Ionic Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Ionic?
PhoneGap
PhoneGap is a web platform that exposes native mobile device apis and data to JavaScript. PhoneGap is a distribution of Apache Cordova. PhoneGap allows you to use standard web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for cross-platform development, avoiding each mobile platforms' native development language. Applications execute within wrappers targeted to each platform, and rely on standards-compliant API bindings to access each device's sensors, data, and network status.
Xamarin
Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
NativeScript
NativeScript enables developers to build native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Universal while sharing the application code across the platforms. When building the application UI, developers use our libraries, which abstract the differences between the native platforms.
React Native
React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.
Flutter
Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.
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