Ionic: using wireframe with HTML5 only

Question

I am considering using ionic for my project, but at first I would like to have only webapp, without going into the application. Like what framework7 allows. But the information I have collected indicates that this is not possible or fully supported by ionic.

Can someone share their experiences to say how possible and how difficult it is?

Answer 1

You can port your Ionic app as a mobile site.

This is basically an angular app with the added benefits of an ionic ecosystem. This ecosystem includes an excellent set of directives for mobile first components of ui, a js library for interaction (pull to refresh / slide, etc.) and other similar things that complement your application to make it look and feel like a native application .

It is really close to accessing your device’s own components (camera, location, battery information, etc.) using js apis (cordova.js). But it is not useless when you build a mobile site with ion. Thus, you can write specific platform code to support both web and native. You can make the most of cordova.js when you start creating your own native applications. For the rest, leave it plain vanilla for your mobile site.

I ported my ionic app as a web application to serve my audience in mobile browsers (they also plan to launch their own applications soon), and so far I have not had any serious problems. It really has a mobile first experience.

If building a one page website is your only goal, you should probably go for standard angular boot web applications. Ionic is not intended for this.