Can I build an ionic application and use it as web application with full capabilities as the mobile part ? Or ionic have 100% efficiency on phones ?
As for running ionic on as a web application. yes you can do that. but one thing you'll need to consider when developing your application. check your dependencies and libraries, and be sure that they support web application. else you should be fine.
As for the efficiency part, it is not optimal, but you can enhance the performance. something that ionic does that will slow your app is loading all your application in one JS file, that delays the lunch, to avoid that use lazy loading to load your app's components.
Let me know if you have any further questions.
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Ionic was built with mobile in mind - creating a good mobile experience using web technologies. You start out with a web app, so there is the possibility to use it for all 3 platforms. However I’ve never seen anything that resembles a complex web application that uses iconic for both the web and mobile. Will it support the ability to use 3rd party controls such as complex grid controls that may only be used on the web and not in the mobile apps. I’m trying to decide if we use ionic just for mobile and have a completely separate code base for our web application. Any invites would be greatly appreciated!
Basically everything that works on the web also works on mobile devices built with Ionic.
Ionic creates a WebView where javascript code runs. you can use capacitor or cordova to manage native functionality.
So if you have web developers you can do anything you could do as "Mobile Web" but in an app.
Now you can also choose whether to use react, angular or vue.
For example using Ionic with react you can use the VirtualDom and develop exactly as if you were using react on the web.
Instead, using for example React Native you will be forced to use a set of react components (or write new ones) but you will not have the VirtualDom available.
However you can also integrate native code, which Ionic doesn't support.
There are a lot of articles online that cover the subject by comparing competitors:
From Ionic
So yes, you can use all javascript libraries!
I’m using Ionic with Angular to write an iOS and Android app.
But most of the development I use ionic serve with Chrome, it’s fast and simple.
But now I realized that it’s getting harder when I have to use the native HTTP API to do fundamental things like talking to a rest api on my server. The native HTTP api is working for the iOS/Android app in production, but not in the web app mode I’m using for development.
I know that I there are options like live reload for iOS and Android but they are still lazy in my point of view.
So I’m asking you:
Do you prefer developing directly with iOS/Android emulator/devices or are you also using the web app and found a way around the troubles above?
there is no way you can test native HTTP on the browser. you have to use an emulator or a native device. BUT, for testing UI you can run the command ionic serve --lab instead of ionic serve. do it and see the difference.
to test HTTP on the browser you must use HttpClient.
I am working on an Ionic 4/capacitor app which will be released as PWA, iOs and android native app. I am using angular service worker caching mechanism(using ngsw-config.json file) to cache some responses. It works fine on browser. Both writing to and fetching from cache works seamlessly without writing any piece of code.
My confusion is, will this service worker caching works on native android/iOs ionic 4 apps?
If not, then i would have to write caching functions( both get() and set()) in my code to cache responses/images(using ionic storage etc) . But then if my service worker caching is on and these caching methods are also in my code , wouldn't there be duplicate cache writes for the same stuff ?
I am not sure how to handle this because i am new to Ionic4/PWA world. Please suggest a caching architectural design which works in all three modes i.e. PWA, iOS and android.
Appreciate and thanks in advance.
I'am about to start learning ionic to create a project for web and mobile.
What i want is : writing code once, and having a classic website and an iOS and Android native apps.
The design is different between website and apps, so it can't just be responsive, it kinda must have different html for different platforms.
Is this possible with this version of ionic or should i create two different projects for web and apps ?
Thank you!
First of all, Ionic does not create native apps for iOS and Android, they are hybrid apps.
That being said yes, there is a way to achieve what you want but it probably isn't the best way. Ionic build does produce a plain web project inside a www/ folder which you can deploy as a website.
That however is probably not the best option if you want a great website, as web and mobile app design is quite different.
Ionic already creates hybrid applications, i would not use it as a tripartite technology and rather create a separate project for a web application.
I have read some docs and i do not really understand what are the differences between react and ionic frameworks.
Is one of them made from the other ?
I have to store local data. I suppose one of them is just web and javascript so data is only stored on server ? Or is it possible to do local storage with both of them.
Is it possible to host the app on a web server without having a "real" app ?
Thanks
Hi I think that you are a little bit confused. I hope this clarify your doubts:
Ionic framework is a set of tools for create Hybrid apps using html/css and javascript, It is build using apache cordova and Angular 1. In the other hand you have React a library for build rich UX(User experience) web apps.
Ionic is not build on react. They are different purpose tools but you can use that together (Using IONIC 2).
In both cases you can use local storage, but if you want to store data in servers you have to build your own backend to provide data to the app They are front end oriented frameworks(no server side)
You can put Ionic code on a server it is simple JavaScript and HTML but this is not the purpose of the framework and if you do it, you loose the native apis of the device. In the case of React it is just a library and you can use it in an existing project using HTML and Javascript or build your app entirely with it.
You have a long road ahead, hope this help you.
Ionic is an HTML5 mobile app development framework targeted at building hybrid mobile apps. They are essentially small websites running in a browser shell in an app that have access to the native platform layer.
React Native is the next generation of React – a JavaScript code library developed by Facebook and Instagram, which was released on Github in 2013. React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript.
They have their own way of functioning, below are few points on their differences:
Ionic is a regular web app, written using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, but it runs in a webview embedded in a native app instead of in a stand-alone mobile browser
React Native has a completely different architecture: instead of writing your UI using web technologies, it uses the React component model to render to native views.
Ionic is a Cordova based app that wrap current web app into a mobile application. It uses the android existing web view to render the app so the file size is quite small
Meanwhile react native create bridge between JavaScript and native component.
When it comes to memory usage, Ionic framework uses more than react native apps
The Ionic app is slower at loading videos because it needs to download from other server, while in react native, it caches the tiles so it loads faster.
When it comes to integration, react native can use every client based JavaScript modules from npm (node package manager) whereas Ionic uses only the Cordova-based code.
Ionic is a framework that creates an idea of writing code only once
React native is not a write once and run anywhere framework, but is popularly touted as a “learn once, write anywhere” framework
Ionic Framework app needs to use device features and APIs through Apache Cordova plugins.
With react native you can access any device component or API
Based on the points above, you can see the difference in their functionalities, so if you want to go for something that creates performant iOS and Android apps that feel at home on their respective platforms ten you can opt for React Native.
And, if you are targeted at building hybrid mobile apps, Ionic is the best choice!