Framework7 vs Ionic React

Overview

Framework7

Stacks141

Followers331

Votes171

Ionic React

Stacks69

Followers100

Votes0

Framework7 vs Ionic React: What are the differences?

Developers describe Framework7 as "Full Featured HTML Framework For Building iOS Apps". Framework7 - is a free and open source mobile HTML framework to develop hybrid mobile apps or web apps with iOS native look and feel. All you need to make it work is a simple HTML layout and attached framework's CSS and JS files! Framework7 doesn't force you to write some custom tags that will be converted by JavaScript to something else. On the other hand, Ionic React is detailed as "A native React version of Ionic Framework that makes it easy to build apps for iOS, Android, Desktop, and the web as a Progressive Web App". It is a native React version of Ionic Framework that makes it easy to build apps for iOS, Android, Desktop, and the web as a Progressive Web App. All with one code base, standard React development patterns, and using the standard react-dom library and huge ecosystem around the web platform.

Framework7 and Ionic React can be categorized as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.

Some of the features offered by Framework7 are:

iOS Specific
UI Components
Swipe Actions

On the other hand, Ionic React provides the following key features:

Cross-platform
One code base
Standard React development patterns

Framework7 and Ionic React are both open source tools. It seems that Ionic React with 39.4K GitHub stars and 13.1K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Framework7 with 14.9K GitHub stars and 3.1K GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Framework7	Ionic React
It is a free and open source mobile HTML framework to develop hybrid mobile apps or web apps with iOS native look and feel. All you need to make it work is a simple HTML layout and attached framework's CSS and JS files.	It is a native React version of Ionic Framework that makes it easy to build apps for iOS, Android, Desktop, and the web as a Progressive Web App. All with one code base, standard React development patterns, and using the standard react-dom library and huge ecosystem around the web platform.
iOS Specific;UI Components;Swipe Actions;Easy To Customize;Native Scrolling;Multiple Views	Cross-platform; One code base; Standard React development patterns
Statistics
Stacks 141	Stacks 69
Followers 331	Followers 100
Votes 171	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 21 Free and open source 20 Well designed 17 Material design 15 Lots of ready-to-use ui elements, easy to customize 12 Best performance Cons 1 Not suitable for high performance in PWA. desktop apps	Cons 1 Poor docs
Integrations
React Vue.js Svelte	iOS Android OS

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