Introduction to Ionic
An introduction to Ionic, including why you should choose this tool for app development and an overview of changes in recent versions of the framework.
What is Ionic?
Ionic Framework is an open-source UI toolkit for building cross-platform applications using HTML, CSS, and TypeScript with integrations for popular frameworks such as Angular, React, and Vue.
Why should you learn Ionic?
Out of the numerous other mobile development frameworks that are available, why should you choose to develop with Ionic?
In our opinion, Ionic offers the best feature set and product/service ecosystem of any mobile development framework on the market today.
Built to work seamlessly with both Apache Cordova and Angular, Ionic brings the features and functionality of those frameworks while providing a generous library of pre-built components and device plugins to choose from. All of these are based on modern standards and can be built on by other developers.
In addition to these technologies, Ionic is free to download and use.
A brief history: 2007 to the present
The first smartphone
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