Ionic Angular: Advantages and disadvantages of Ionic

You want to use ionic framework on your next project and you want to see some advantages and disadvantages of Ionic Angular framework? By the end of this article, you will have a basic knowledge about the ionic framework. I will try to cover ionic in a very simple and intuitive way, so you can decide should you go with ionic or not.

What is Ionic?

Ionic is an open-source framework that helps developers build high-quality apps for mobile, web and desktop without putting too much effort. To use ionic, you need to have a basic knowledge of some web-based technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You can also integrate ionic with popular frameworks in 2022 like Angular, react and Vue, etc. However, it is not necessary to have Angular, react, or any other framework because ionic is a standalone framework. We just need to add the simple script.

Ionic Angular: The best combination

The ionic angular framework uses Angular to provide more functionalities to the developers. Angular allows Ionic to provide a robust structure which increases the developer’s control of code. The greatest support of Ionic is for Ionic Angular combination.

Ionic Pros:

Here are some of the advantages of Ionic framework:

1. Easy to learn: If the developer knows the basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, then learning ionic framework becomes easy
2. Great documentation: Ionic documentation is way better than any other front-end frameworks. It is well structured, all information which developers need to learn ionic can be easily found
3. Cross-platform: Ionic allows users to deploy their app on multiple platforms such as iOS, Android, Desktop, and the web. We don’t need to write separate code for each platform. Ionic allows us to write once and deploy on multiple platforms
4. User interface: The themes and components of ionic are customizable. Moreover, they have the ability to adopt to the platform on which they are running. Moreover, we can change them according to our needs

Ionic Cons:

And here are some of the disadvantages of using Ionic framework:

1. Performance: Ionic apps are not as fast as other native mobile applications, but not all users can find/notice this performance gap
2. Security: Ionic apps are not recommended from a security point of view. This is because they are not as much secure as other apps are. Banks and other financial departments don’t recommend this framework because there is a huge chance of unauthorized data access
3. Limited native functionality: Most of the native functionalities are there in ionic but there are some that are not there. In that case, you need to develop a plugin according to your requirement and use it as a native functionality
4. Not recommended for video games: The graphics of this framework is not good yet so I would not recommend it for video games.

Conclusion

If your app is not related to graphics, finance, video games and performance and native functionalities are not the most important requirement, then Ionic is a perfect choice. If you are looking to build an app for banks, HQ graphic apps, games, apps with an accent on native functionalities (GPS, Camera, Microphone, etc) then Ionic is not recommended.
Finally, having a single team working in Ionic is much less expansive than having a separate team for iOS and Android and managing those two.

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