5 ms·
HN loves React Native and Flutter but Ionic and Capacitor are really great. I bootstrapped a Ionic project the other day and had something running right after
by conradfr 4y ago
HN loves React Native and Flutter but Ionic and Capacitor are really great.
I bootstrapped a Ionic project the other day and had something running right after without knowing anything about it some hours before, compiling as a pwa and native apps using their respective toolchain.
It felt like I was replacing Bootstrap components with Ionic's and was able to transfer all my Vue knowledge.
Also the docs are great nowadays, way less Angular centric than before.
- wg0 4y agoActually... ReactNative is pretty novel idea TBH but developer experience (DX) is not as smooth IMHO and that's what you use such frameworks in the first place. Flutter's overall DX experience is so incredible that it is in its own league. But the ecosystem is still pretty limited, there are performance issues as well. Web (HTML, CSS, JS) has been so optimised over the past two decades and it has such a HUGE ecosystem and libraries that it becomes almost unavoidable choice if coupled with Capacitor et.el. Imagine d3.js or some of the amazing visualisation libraries. Hard to get the same deal on ReactNative or Flutter with same breadth and robustness.
- Alifatisk 4y agoRegarding Flutters performance issues, they are switching engine from Skia to something called Impeller. You can already switch to it by adding this flag, "--enable-impeller". It's waaay smoother and worth giving a shot, their demo on YT is highly suggested.
- wg0 4y agoOkay, thank you for mentioning. Will check.
- LeanderK 4y agoI was also pleasantly surprised by Ionic. I found it easy to use, quick to set up and performing well. Perfect I think for small to medium sized web-apps!