Ionic vs RIBs: What are the differences?
Ionic: A beautiful front-end framework for developing cross-platform apps with web technologies like Angular and React. 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; RIBs: Build cross-platform apps that have similar architecture, enabling iOS and Android teams to cross-review business logic code (by Uber). RIBs is the cross-platform architecture framework behind many mobile apps at Uber. The name RIBs is short for Router, Interactor and Builder, which are core components of this architecture. This framework is designed for mobile apps with a large number of engineers and nested states.
Ionic and RIBs can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.
Ionic and RIBs are both open source tools. Ionic with 38.5K GitHub stars and 13.1K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than RIBs with 4.76K GitHub stars and 477 GitHub forks.