Ionic Framework is an open source mobile UI toolkit for building high quality, cross-platform native and web app experiences. Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile-optimized UI components, gestures, and tools for building fast, highly interactive apps. Ionic is an HTML5 mobile app development framework targeted at building hybrid mobile apps. Hybrid apps are essentially small websites running in a browser shell in an app that have access to the native platform layer. Hybrid apps have many benefits over pure native apps, specifically in terms of platform support, speed of development, and access to 3rd party code.

Ionic’s UI components display beautifully on all mobile devices and platforms. With ready-made components, typography, and a gorgeous base theme which adapts to each platform. Ionic enables web developers to ship apps to the app stores and as a PWA with a single shared code base. With Ionic’s Adaptive Styling, your app looks and feels at home on every platform and device. Ionic is built to perform and run fast on all of the latest mobile devices. Build out-of-the-box blazing fast apps with a small footprint and built-in best practices like hardware accelerated transitions, touch-optimized gestures, pre-rendering, and AOT compiling. Ionic is engineered to integrate seamlessly with all best frontend frameworks, including Angular, React, Vue, or even no framework at all with vanilla JavaScript.

Ionic’s components are written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, making it easily build beautiful, high quality UI that perform great everywhere. Ionic makes it easy to access native device features with just a little bit of JavaScript. Choose from a rich library of over 120 native device plugins for accessing Camera, Geolocation, Bluetooth, and more, or dive into the full native SDK when you need it.

From community plugins to premium supported integrations, Ionic has you covered. Power-up your app workflow with integrations into your favourite stacks.