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There are a ton of compelling reasons to build apps targeting mobile web views, and despite Ionic's poor showing on this survey, we are seeing a lot of serious
by yesimahuman 7y ago
There are a ton of compelling reasons to build apps targeting mobile web views, and despite Ionic's poor showing on this survey, we are seeing a lot of serious apps and brands doing so and picking it explicitly because of those benefits.
Perhaps the biggest is the overlap with web dev tech, team skill makeup, and the hiring market for web devs being incredibly vibrant. Vast majority of teams have struggled to go native and build/hire those teams, and are instead excited about using the web devs they already have or taking advantage of that hiring market.
One trend that is really interesting is that many teams have decided they need to be prepared for a PWA future and can't afford to have two separate efforts to accomplish that (i.e. app store apps and PWA). They see Ionic as a way to do both and be ready for the expansion of PWA adoption which is early but happening fairly organically, and has some key enterprise benefits that make it attractive for those teams.
Sorry you had a bad experience on our github issues. We're a small team relative to the size of the community and have had to resort to automation and tooling to figure out signal from noise. It's been a constant process of iteration on that front.