How we built our app in 2 weeks using Ionic Framework

Re:How we built our app in 2 weeks using Ionic Framework by colinramsay on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @06:28AM (#8594931)

Just installed it and I think this is the perfect sweet spot for this kind of wrapped webapp. The app is simple (but useful) and still leverages native things like the select combo and date time pickers. The transitions between the two screens are smooth and the list scrolling feels great.

I suppose my only query is... why bother with ionic? This is such a simple application that it almost feels overkill, you could have used the cordova commandline tools along with libraries like iscroll and fastclick and you'd have had everything you've got here with less overhead...

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Re:How we built our app in 2 weeks using Ionic Framework by rayv on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @06:46AM (#8594982)

I guess whilst using Cordova on it's own was also possible, it would, like you said, also involve including/setting up multiple libs. Ionic just sets you up with very solid boilerplate and then also comes boxed with awesome UI components. For us the slight overhead was definitely a good trade-off.

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