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Ionic vs Markdown

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Overview

Ionic
Ionic
Stacks9.5K
Followers8.6K
Votes1.8K
Markdown
Markdown
Stacks22.2K
Followers16.5K
Votes960

Ionic vs Markdown: What are the differences?

Markdown vs. Ionic

Markdown and Ionic are two popular technologies used in web development, each serving different purposes. Below are the key differences between Markdown and Ionic:

  1. Purpose: Markdown is a lightweight markup language used to format plain text documents, while Ionic is a framework used for building cross-platform mobile applications with web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

  2. Output: Markdown is used to create static documents that can be easily converted to HTML, PDF, or other formats, whereas Ionic is used to build interactive mobile applications that can be deployed on Android, iOS, and web platforms.

  3. Complexity: Markdown is simple and mainly focuses on text formatting, making it easy for anyone to use, whereas Ionic involves more complex development processes, including creating user interfaces, implementing logic, and testing across multiple platforms.

  4. Development Environment: Markdown can be written in any text editor and viewed in a web browser, while Ionic requires setting up a development environment with specific tools and dependencies to build and test mobile applications.

  5. Components: Markdown primarily consists of text formatting elements like headers, lists, and links, with limited support for multimedia and interactivity, whereas Ionic offers a wide range of UI components, plugins, and APIs for creating feature-rich mobile applications.

  6. Community Support: Markdown has a large and active community that continuously contributes extensions, plugins, and tools to enhance its functionality, while Ionic also has a strong community backing, providing support, tutorials, and updates to developers.

In Summary, Markdown is ideal for creating structured documents with simple formatting, while Ionic is best suited for developing dynamic and interactive mobile applications across multiple platforms.

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Advice on Ionic, Markdown

Anonymous
Anonymous

CEO at ME!

Jun 7, 2020

Decided

While with Ionic it is possible to make mobile applications with only web technologies, Flutter is more performant and is easy to use if you are willing to learn Dart, which is a fun language. Plus, it has awesome documentation and, while its ecosystem isn't near as big as JavaScript's is, it has a good package manager called Pub and its packages are generally high quality.

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Rick
Rick

founder at Webcompose.ca

May 8, 2020

Needs adviceonGitHubGitHubMarkdownMarkdownnpmnpm

I am a newbie to StackShare and the GitHub community. I want to understand how to use an include statement to get a collection of Markdown files to create a book. I have been told that there are a number of useful tools. My problem is that npm and Node.js are also very new to me. Any suggestions on how to get my md chapters into a printable document would be helpful.

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Thuan
Thuan

FE Lead at SOLID ENGINEER

Jun 16, 2020

Decided
  • Javascripts is the most populated language in the world.
  • Easy to learn & deployed production
  • Fast development
  • Strong community
  • Completed Documents
  • Native performance with lower RAM used.
  • Easy to handle native issues by using native code like Java / Objective C
  • Powered by Facebook.
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Detailed Comparison

Ionic
Ionic
Markdown
Markdown

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.

Markdown is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML.

Performance obsessed;Utilizes Angular and React;Native focused;Beautifully designed;Based on Web Components;
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Statistics
Stacks
9.5K
Stacks
22.2K
Followers
8.6K
Followers
16.5K
Votes
1.8K
Votes
960
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 248
    Allows for rapid prototyping
  • 228
    Hybrid mobile
  • 208
    It's angularjs
  • 186
    Free
  • 179
    It's javascript, html, and css
Cons
  • 20
    Not suitable for high performance or UI intensive apps
  • 15
    Not meant for game development
  • 2
    Not a native app
Pros
  • 345
    Easy formatting
  • 246
    Widely adopted
  • 194
    Intuitive
  • 132
    Github integration
  • 41
    Great for note taking
Cons
  • 2
    Cannot centralise (HTML code needed)
  • 1
    Non-extensible
  • 1
    No right indentation
  • 1
    No underline
  • 1
    Unable to indent tables

What are some alternatives to Ionic, Markdown?

JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Python

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

PHP

PHP

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

Ruby

Ruby

Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming.

Java

Java

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

Golang

Golang

Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

HTML5

HTML5

HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.

C#

C#

C# (pronounced "See Sharp") is a simple, modern, object-oriented, and type-safe programming language. C# has its roots in the C family of languages and will be immediately familiar to C, C++, Java, and JavaScript programmers.

Scala

Scala

Scala is an acronym for “Scalable Language”. This means that Scala grows with you. You can play with it by typing one-line expressions and observing the results. But you can also rely on it for large mission critical systems, as many companies, including Twitter, LinkedIn, or Intel do. To some, Scala feels like a scripting language. Its syntax is concise and low ceremony; its types get out of the way because the compiler can infer them.

Elixir

Elixir

Elixir leverages the Erlang VM, known for running low-latency, distributed and fault-tolerant systems, while also being successfully used in web development and the embedded software domain.

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