Ionic is the open source HTML5 Mobile Framework for building amazing, cross-platform hybrid native apps and mobile websites with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. If you know how to build or design websites, you will be able to build a real mobile app with Ionic!
We built Ionic because we wanted a framework that focused on building high quality hybrid native apps and mobile web apps using open web technologies we loved. The same technology the world has been using for decades to build websites, desktop applications, and now mobile and tablet apps. We wanted this framework to be obsessive about great design and performance, and work on multiple platforms without changing a thing.
We rejected the idea that web mobile apps had to be clunky, slow, and non-native. We believed that we could bring the best of the web together with the best of the native platforms without sacrificing the power, accessibility, and portability of the open web.
Above all, we built Ionic to be the easiest way for the next generation of developers to get into mobile and start building apps that compete with the best on the app store, and do it affordably.
Today, Ionic powers over 1.5 million mobile apps and websites (and even some desktop apps!), built by small startups up to Fortune 50 companies. Ionic developers come from hundreds of countries around the world, and have helped build a community that boasts hundreds of monthly meetings, conference talks, and workshops; an incredibly active forum and Theme and Plugin Marketplace; and some pretty amazing apps.
To start using ionic, you have two options: copy over the built JS and CSS files, or
use the ionic
tool (ionic-cli) which can be installed through npm (recommended): (You may need to prefix the command with sudo
depending on your OS and setup.)
Additionally, we have a desktop GUI tool that we recently released called Ionic Lab. If you try it, let us know what you think!
To get started with the CLI flow, fire up your terminal and run:
npm install -g ionic
Then, you can start a new ionic project by running:
ionic start myproject
ionic serve
run in android
ionic run android
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Ionic is licensed under the MIT Open Source license. For more information, see the LICENSE file in this repository.