Which Framework is Suitable- Ionic Vs React Native

The world of mobile development is used to be the same as earlier. In the era of technology, every day is full of innovation, and every day new technologies emerging in the app development world. React Native and ionic is one of them and both have different qualities on different parameters how are they different from each other and which one will be suitable, we will find out this in detail. This blog is all about Ionic Vs React native to find out which is suitable for your app let’s see this all in-depth detail. 

What is Ionic

This framework is developed by Drifty by using the TypeScript for development. This framework is a hybrid app development that makes the usage of CSS, HTML5, and JavaScript that can easily run on several platforms like iOS, Windows, and Android. 

Popular brands use Ionic

Sworkit, Untapped, McDonald’s Turkiye, Pacifica, MarketWatch, Chefsteps, JustWatch. 

What is React Native

This framework is developed and introduced by Facebook making use of the Javascript and it is one of the most used frameworks by the developers. This framework allows developers to use the same code for building apps for different platforms. Developers are free from creating the apps from scratch, they can easily use the same code for the different platforms. 

Popular brands use React Native

UberEats, Instagram, Myntra, Airbnb, Gyroscope, Discord, Facebook ads manager.

Comparison between Ionic & React Native

Community Support

React native has very strong community support whereas ionic has moderate support from the community.

Testing

For testing react native requires specific mobile devices for finding bugs and fixing them and on the other hand, the ionic app can be tested on any browser. Ionic is more flexible than react-native. 

Performance

In every aspect, React native gives efficient performance whereas ionic delivers average performance due to it is a web view. 

Reusable

In the case of react native, a single code is required for creating apps on different platforms like iOS, Windows, and Android whereas Ionic is also a single-use code for developing apps for the different platforms. 

Document

The documentation required for the React native is very basic and average on the other hand, the documentation for the Ionic is very consistent, precise, and clear.

Development

For react-native, the learner just needs to “learn” the framework one and will be able to write it anywhere while for ionic, the learner needs to “write” it once and can use it anywhere. 

Learning curve

For the react-native, there are limited pre-developed elements are available that is why it takes a longer time than usual for learning this framework and on the other hand, Ionic already has many pre-developed and pre-designed elements which will make easy to learn this framework. 

Conclusion

After doing the comparison between the ionic and react native, it becomes more difficult to find out which one is more suitable. Both frameworks have their own tasks and responsibility, ups and downs, pros and cons but the only thing is each that both can fulfill the demand of the client or developers where the other framework does not get fit.

If you pay extra attention to the great designing and user interface, the cost you invested in developing the app will be worth it. In short, if you need a high user interface and visually appealing designing, the Ionic framework for your app is a perfect choice and if you focus on the performance, lots of plugins, strong community support, and heavy data management, react native will be suitable for your app. 

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