Ionic
faisal alanazi
Apr 14, 2019
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CommentsWhat 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 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.
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.
