Ionic 4: All you need to know

Could it be Ionic the final answer to the question: Can I have a single code base for Android, iOS, Web and desktop? In this article I will give an overview of the Ionic framework and focus on the Ionic 4 new features.

Introduction

If you are reading this is because you already know how powerful JavaScript is. You can build Progressive Web Apps (PWA), hybrid apps or even desktop apps using these technologies. 2019 is the year where most of the innovation and development will occur on the client side.

There are too many frameworks to choose from which achieve the same thing and certain key features can be crucial for the future of the framework. I do believe that the Ionic team has made really good choices for the next version of Ionic, which will be released sometime January 2019; some great features are PWA toolkit, capacitor and web components. Let’s discuss some of them… but first, what is Ionic?

Ionic Overview

What is Ionic?

Ionic is a complete open-source SDK for building performant, high-quality mobile and desktop apps using web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript). The original version was released in 2013 and built on top of AngularJS and Apache Cordova. The more recent releases, known as Ionic 3 or simply “Ionic”, are built on…