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Ionic
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Ionic

#18in Frameworks
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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 Frameworks category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Performance obsessedUtilizes Angular and ReactNative focusedBeautifully designedBased on Web Components

Ionic Pros & Cons

Pros of Ionic

  • ✓Allows for rapid prototyping
  • ✓Hybrid mobile
  • ✓It's angularjs
  • ✓Free
  • ✓It's javascript, html, and css
  • ✓Ui and theming
  • ✓Great designs
  • ✓Mv* pattern
  • ✓Reuse frontend devs on mobile
  • ✓Extensibility

Cons of Ionic

  • ✗Not suitable for high performance or UI intensive apps
  • ✗Not meant for game development
  • ✗Not a native app

Ionic Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Ionic?

React Native

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

Flutter is a mobile app SDK to help developers and designers build modern mobile apps for iOS and Android.

Xamarin

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.

Expo

Expo

It is a framework and a platform for universal React applications. It is a set of tools and services built around React Native and native platforms that help you develop, build, deploy, and quickly iterate on iOS, Android, and web apps.

Apache Cordova

Apache Cordova

Apache Cordova is a set of device APIs that allow a mobile app developer to access native device function such as the camera or accelerometer from JavaScript. Combined with a UI framework such as jQuery Mobile or Dojo Mobile or Sencha Touch, this allows a smartphone app to be developed with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

PhoneGap

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.

Ionic Discussions

Discover why developers choose Ionic. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.Showing 1 of 5 discussions.

Antonio Kobashikawa
Antonio Kobashikawa

Web developer | Blogger | Freelancer

Jan 17, 2019

Needs adviceonNode.jsNode.jsExpressJSExpressJSMongoDBMongoDB

We are using Node.js and ExpressJS to build a REST services that is middleware of a legacy system. MongoDB as database. Vue.js helps us to make rapid UI to test use cases. Frontend is build for mobile with Ionic . We like using JavaScript and ES6 .

I think next step could be to use Koa but I am not sure.

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Ionic Integrations

Backand, Greenhouse, Atatus, RxDB, JScrambler and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Ionic. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Ionic.

Backand
Backand
Greenhouse
Greenhouse
Atatus
Atatus
RxDB
RxDB
JScrambler
JScrambler
Buddy
Buddy
Ionicons
Ionicons
Nevercode
Nevercode
Ziggeo
Ziggeo
WebStorm
WebStorm
Apache Flex
Apache Flex
AWS AppSync
AWS AppSync

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