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For our startup, managing a single codebase for our frontend applications has made our path to the market much more simple. Ionic has allowed us to focus on getting product/market fit without requiring a large specialized mobile development team to get the job done.
Ionic provides snappy, 60 frames per second animations and easy templating with a very native feel on desktop, iOS, and Android. In fact, we've preferred certain component looks from one platform or another and it's easy to specify a class on an element to push it one way or the other depending on preference.
Appflow is a fantastic add-on product as well (we're on the Growth plan) that simplifies deployment to both app stores. We have Appflow configured in such a way that, with a few clicks, I have a production bundle ready to promote to the production track in both Apple App Store as well as Google Play Store. We haven't used the Web deployment option available inside of Appflow yet but it looks interesting.
Additionally, I have to say that build times are lightning-fast as well. We are running Ionic/Angular and love the 3-4s build times. It makes development just about as real-time as you can get. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Ionic's "native" date picker is annoying for almost every user I've personally worked alongside as we're onboarding. However, I do see that a new date picker is in the works for for Ionic 6. We are all looking forward to a more calendar-looking date picker that will make it much easier for the scheduling nature of much of our application.
Some elements end up being hard to target for CSS customization due to the shadow DOM implementation. However, for our use case, this hasn't been too much of an issue to overcome. Of course, the advantages to this approach of encapsulating the Ionic web components likely outweigh the disadvantages.
We also ran into an issue regarding the iOS animated header. The implementation didn't work consistently out of the box between iOS and Android/Desktop. We ended up compromising on the design to get our application released. There is likely a solution there. However, it did take more time than we had to try and figure it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Probably the components. They are very straightforward to use thanks to their amazing documentation. Great support, community, and documentation go a long way for developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There are not many downsides but working with the shadow-DOM to customize components would probably be one. If you can avoid having too many customizations then this is the perfect product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It supports various libraries and it's code is easy to implement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
In Ionic sometimes version control is difficult to implement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Really helpfull customer service which can help with any problems.
Easy of Implementation and good documentation for features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Relatively small community for frameworks and libraries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's support Angular code and it's various featurs to implement the code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Version support is deficult in Ionic and sometimes facing lacking problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Ionic have helped me fast development and being a founder and CTO of startup I can say that we need to be very fast in testing features, to test more things that customer is liking and not liking. Ionic have really helpful in faster development and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The performance of UI have been quite disappointing for me, I am still struggling with the performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Ionic gives you (regardless of your framework preference) a powerful way to build an idea or concept quickly and deploy it to a real mobile app and/or a desktop application. For many applications, use of existing knowledge of Javascript or Typescript is all that is required. You can do a lot without ever having to mess with native code. Even if you do need native functionailty, a plethora of existing plugins handle all but the most customized needs.
The provided tooling works well. Updates are consistent and happen regularly. The overall quality of the framework we use the most (Angular) is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Using Ionic in the long term can be a struggle as you build more device-specific solutions. While most of the plugins work well, they sometimes have bugs or issues that, if your team isn't used to them, are going to be big blockers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's such an easy to use platform. It takes so much of the mess of developing mobile apps out of the equation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Wish there were some better video tutorials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is very efficient to create hybrid websites in order to display it correctly on different devices.
It works very well with Vue and React and the integration itself is quite simple.
It just lets you work on single codebase for different platforms.
Also, it has got a lot of pre built templates for the ease of the developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Although it has got a lot of plugins, adding them is a bit tedious process. Except for this, I don't find anything else to dislike about Ionic Framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Easy to use, awesome customer support, extensive docs; number of plugins and features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I had a few challenges setting up the Capacitor app, e.g. server config file is being changed when server is running - leading to it being shown in VCS. But in general you can live with it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Its a very easy java script framework with very less learning curve. And its a write once and build multiple kind of an approach where you have the write the code once but you can build either webapp, IOS or An Android with the same code base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I feel many of the components are limited to just mobile UI, i feel they can add more for webapp as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
