Ionic

Score8.7 out of 10

7 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Ionic?

Ionic empowers teams and businesses to build, secure, and deliver enterprise-grade mobile and web apps.

The vendor states that with Ionic, enterprise development teams can speed up and simplify app development, including:

Build app experiences with over 100 UI building blocks
Edit and customize using familiar web languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
Connect to new or existing cloud services or backend systems
Deploy directly to app stores with the push of a button
Automate mobile app delivery with powerful, intuitive mobile CI/CD services
Get expert help at every step of the way

Ionic is based on open web standards, and the vendor boasts it is backed by developer community with million developers in 200 countries -- powering apps for well-known brands, accounting for more than 10% of all apps in the app stores.

Categories & Use Cases

Jeff Hanson View profile

Lead Developer in Information Technology at LH Connected (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Ionic to quickly create multi-device mobile applications using a common (Angular) code base. We have a cloud-based solution that utilizes a mobile application for account inquiry and user interaction.

Pros

Nice command line interface for repetitive development and deployment tasks.
Realtime preview (in web browser) during development.
Easy to update and keep current (open source) via command line.
Provides nice set of mobile widgets for consistency across devices.

Cons

Slightly better documentation when it comes to command line build troubleshooting.
Increased widget library (even though it's much improved today).
Native chart/graphing widgets.