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The dev-friendly app platform for building cross-platform apps with one
codebase, for any device, with the web.
What is Ionic?
Ionic makes it easy to build high-performance mobile and Progressive
Web Apps (or PWAs) that look and feel beautiful on any platform or
device.
Ionic’s open source Framework and developer-friendly tools and
services power apps for some of the world’s best-known brands - from
highly successful consumer apps like Sworkit, Untappd and Dow Jones
MarketWatch, to mission-critical apps supporting Nationwide, Amtrak,
and NASA.
A complete app development kit.
The open source Ionic Framework features a
rich library of front-end building blocks and UI components that make
it easy to design beautiful, high-performance mobile and Progressive
Web Apps (or PWAs) using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and
JavaScript.
Our universal web components pair with any JavaScript framework,
including Angular, React, Vue, or no framework at all (just add a
script tag!). Ionic apps are backend agnostic, with connections to
AWS, Azure, and Firebase.
A supercharged platform for teams
Teams building with Ionic can boost productivity with our powerful and
secure rapid development environment, and Appflow, an
integrated suite of Mobile DevOps services to automate every phase of
the app lifecycle - from native builds to live updates.
Ionic was founded in 2012, when using web technologies to build native
apps was still in its infancy. When we started, we just wanted to
create a better way for web developers to use their existing skills to
build apps.
Today, Ionic is one of the world's most popular cross-platform mobile
development technology stack. Ionic is backed by a vibrant community of more than 5M developers in
over 200 countries, supporting one of the most popular open source app
platforms in the world.
Our Philosophy
Why we’re betting on the web
The web has served developers well for the last twenty years, and we
think that makes it a pretty great bet for the next twenty. It
represents the most stable and time-tested universal runtime in the
world. And today, the web is the best and only way to deliver the
seamless experience that users have come to expect as they interact with
apps across platforms and devices, between desktop and mobile.
Start shipping better apps, today.
Get started with Ionic Framework, or sign up for a free developer
account.