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Ionic
Company blog · ionic.io/blogprogrammingweb
Ionic is the company blog at ionic.io, writing about programming and web. Since 2015, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “Portals: Supercharged Web View for Native iOS and Android Apps”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Build, secure, and deliver amazing cross-platform mobile, web, and desktop apps all with one shared code base and open-web standards. The only enterprise-grade app platform fully powered by open source.
Most-linked posts?
- Portals: Supercharged Web View for Native iOS and Android Apps3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-09-28
- The Future of Ionic's Commercial Products3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-02-11
- /blog/ionic-vs-react-native-performance-comparison2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-14
- One hub for building2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-19
What Hacker News says?
Or Ionic which can be used by AngularJS developers easily. http://ionic.io/
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on “Flutter – Cross-platform mobile framework from Google”Submitted Portals: Supercharged Web View for Native iOS and Android Apps as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThe irony is that the original vision of web components was what you wanted. See Alex Russels "a vision for the Future": https://web.archive.org/web/20121119184816/https://fronteers... --- start quote --- I think we're stuck today in a little bit of a rut of extensibility. We wind up leaning on JavaScript to get things, because it is the Turning complete language in our environment. It is the only thing that can giv…
Comment linking /blog/the-quest-for-ssr-with-web-components-a-stencil-developers-journey
on “Lit: a library for building fast, lightweight web components”Submitted Portals: A better WebView for native apps as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI'm pretty sure Apple is OK with web apps: https://ionic.io/resources/case-studies/sworkit Also Ionic is definitely free and open source: https://ionicframework.com/framework
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on “I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web app and no-one noticed”Submitted Ionic 2 Alpha as a story · 10 points
HN discussionYou mention Ionic at the end, so I have to comment as the co-founder :) The first thought is on maintenance and support from Google/Facebook compared to someone like Ionic. One of the things people don't think about before it's too late is support, and Ionic is unique in mobile in that we actually make money from supporting our technology directly for customers. We have direct support available for our auth/security…
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on “Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter”Submitted Ionic Acquired by Outsystems as a story · 9 points
HN discussionGlad to hear Ionic and Capacitor worked great for you! On the Web View side, one other thing we’ve been working on is a mobile micro-frontend product called Portals that is focused on enabling teams to bring in web experiences into their native apps. We’ve seen some really interesting adoption of it from traditional native teams. We will be supporting Flutter and RN this year. It’s probably the best web view experie…
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on “Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter”Submitted The Future of Ionic's Commercial Products as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHey there! I am the current Docusaurus lead maintainer, if you have any question let me know. You don't need to be Stripe and have a full engineering team working on your doc to make it awesome. Docusaurus is a content-centric static site generator based on Node.js and React. You can build a documentation site but also a blog, landing pages... The idea is that you just write Markdown files, and we generate a great d…
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on “Docusaurus 2.0”Submitted Ionic partners with Capawesome as the migration path off Appflow as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThings have changed a lot in the last few years. This is a React Native vs. Ionic React+Capacitor responsiveness demo: https://twitter.com/magnemg/status/1404073426193690634?s=20 You can achieve 60 fps with webapps now: https://ionic.io/blog/ionic-vs-react-native-performance-comp... With the Shared Element Transitions API you even get smooth page transitions (even for MPA's with full page reload): https://www.youtub…
Comment linking /blog/ionic-vs-react-native-performance-comparison
on “Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS”Submitted How Capacitor Works as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot defensive, apologies if it came across that way. I try to explain how Ionic is different because developers often aren't thinking about some of these non-technical/support things, but their boss or team leads might be. Everything is very "free" on the client-side of mobile but that has also created a situation where teams building really important apps aren't able to get any dedicated support or guarantees aroun…
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on “Capacitor: Cross-platform native runtime for web apps”Submitted A New Chapter for Ionic as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- Ionic Framework ( http://ionicframework.com ): FOSS for building mobile hybrid apps on top of cordova & angular... Quite popular on Github with ~19k stars: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic - Ionic Platform ( http://ionic.io ): Commercial platform from the ionic devs for providing mBaaS, PUSH, Dev Tools, etc for the Ionic community/users
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on “Ionic Marketplace”Submitted Important Announcement: The Future of Ionic's Commercial Products as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Web apps are apparently able to achieve 60 fps in a Web View these days: https://ionic.io/blog/ionic-vs-react-native-performance-comp ... With a high end device. That's the problem. I can get 60FPS in my native app on a $50 Android phone if I use Kotlin/Java and Android SDK... I can't get that in a web view on the same device with a native wrapper using Ionic...
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on “Pluralistic: Web apps could de-monopolize mobile devices (13 Dec 2022)”Submitted Ionic Is the Most Useable Mobile Development Framework as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor a lot of (most?) apps not requiring native capabilities, I suspect it is. The web has come a long way since the days of FB ditching HTML5 in favor of creating React Native. Here are some recent comparison videos, using the exact same app example. React Native (w/ Animated API): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV-2HRzNX9o&t=13s Ionic React 5 + Capacitor 3.0 (w/ SwiperJS): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o2hpv9N7…
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on “Pluralistic: Web apps could de-monopolize mobile devices (13 Dec 2022)”Submitted Ionic React vs. React Native as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt’s interesting to see the solution that the AI came up with, but WebdriverIO and Appium already exist for this use case, are open source like Capacitor, and come recommended from the Capacitor developers. https://ionic.io/blog/introducing-the-ionic-end-to-end-testi...
Comment linking /blog/introducing-the-ionic-end-to-end-testing-reference-example
on “Teaching Claude to QA a mobile app”Submitted A Better Web View as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOn other hand, on the energy impact, if anyone can find RN consumes more energy compare to Ionic that probably use Capacitor under the hood? https://ionic.io/blog/ionic-vs-react-native-performance-comp...
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on “No, React Native is not the future”Submitted One hub for building as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's also: - https://thenounproject.com/ - https://ionic.io/ionicons - https://iconoir.com/ - (If you're using React): https://mui.com/material-ui/material-icons/
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on “Ask HN: Alternative to SF Symbols for web use?”Submitted Stencil Reframed: Community-Driven Governance Takes Center Stage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf we're listing icons, I use these ones: https://ionic.io/ionicons/ They provide a full framework but you can also download SVGs.
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on “Linen.dev: The 500KB Slack Alternative”Submitted Capacitor 7 has hit GA as a story · 1 points
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