Ionic vs React Storybook: What are the differences?
Developers describe Ionic as "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. On the other hand, React Storybook is detailed as "Develop and design React components without an app". You just load your UI components into the React Storybook and start developing them. This functionality allows you to develop UI components rapidly without worrying about the app. It will improve your team’s collaboration and feedback loop.
Ionic belongs to "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" category of the tech stack, while React Storybook can be primarily classified under "MVC Tools".
Some of the features offered by Ionic are:
- Performance obsessed
- Utilizes Angular and React
- Native focused
On the other hand, React Storybook provides the following key features:
- Isolated environment for your components (with the use of various iframe tactics).
- Hot module reloading (even for functional stateless components).
- Works with any app (whether it's Redux, Relay or Meteor).
Ionic and React Storybook are both open source tools. It seems that React Storybook with 39.4K GitHub stars and 3.23K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Ionic with 38.5K GitHub stars and 13.1K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Ionic has a broader approval, being mentioned in 393 company stacks & 361 developers stacks; compared to React Storybook, which is listed in 43 company stacks and 22 developer stacks.