Ionic Framework is a powerful cross-platform UI toolkit for building native-quality iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Ionic offers a library of mobile-optimized UI components, gestures, and tools for building fast, highly interactive apps.
Ionic is free and open source software.
Key Features
- UI components display beautifully on all mobile devices and platforms.
- Components are written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, making it easy to build modern, high quality UIs
- Ship apps to the app stores and as a PWA with a single shared code base.
- Create, build, test, and deploy your app with a powerful CLI. Access features like Live Reload, cross-platform deployments, and integrations. You can even use the CLI’s of your favorite JS frameworks
- Build out-of-the-box blazing fast apps with a small footprint and built-in best practices like hardware accelerated transitions, touch-optimized gestures, pre-rendering, and AOT compiling.
- Integrate seamlessly with all best frontend frameworks, including Angular, React, Vue, or even no framework at all with vanilla JavaScript
- Access native device features with just a little bit of JavaScript. Choose from a rich library of over 120 native device plugins for accessing Camera, Geolocation, Bluetooth, and more, or dive into the full native SDK when you need it.
Website: ionicframework.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Drifty
License: MIT License
Ionic Framework is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Mobile Application Development Frameworks | |
|---|---|
| React Native | Mobile application framework |
| Ionic Framework | SDK for hybrid mobile app development |
| Flutter | UI toolkit for building natively compiled applications |
| Quasar | Enterprise-ready cross-platform VueJs framework |
| Framework7 | Mobile HTML framework for building iOS and Android apps |
| Apache Cordova | Mobile application development framework |
| NativeScript | Develop mobile apps on Apple iOS and Android |
| Dioxus | React-like library for building fast, portable, and beautiful user interfaces |
| Uno Platform | Build single codebase native mobile, web, desktop and embedded apps |
| ZK | Ajax Web application framework |
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