What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Ionic Framework?

In this article, we will be discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the Ionic Framework. 

Ionic framework is an open-source UI toolkit that emphasizes the look and feel of the app. The user can run the application on any platform and device. 

Advantages of Ionic Framework:

• Easy-breezy to learn and understand

It becomes effortlessly smooth for the user to understand the ionic framework concepts if the developer is well-versed with the fundamentals of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and javascript. The companies are switching over the ionic framework for the development purpose of creating hybrid applications. 

• Documentation is easy

The documentation of the ionic framework is pretty well. Everything is well-structured in the official documentation. It covered almost all the aspects required for the developers to understand the framework. 

• Cross-platform functionality

It provides the functionality to deploy apps on multiple devices like android, iOS, desktop, and more. They follow the concept of writing the code once and run the created app on any device. 

• Improved User Interface

It improves the User Interface of the app. The UI becomes more appealing now. It provides themes and components that are customized. Ionics allows its elements to adjust on the platform where it is running. 

• Officially built on AngularJs

It is integrated with the AngularJS framework which provides major functionality to the developers for creating the apps. It is a widely used framework by designers. It provides the structure to the code that makes it more manageable. 

If something has merits, then obviously it has demerits too.

So, the disadvantages of the ionic framework are:

• Less Performable

The performance of native mobile applications is pretty good in comparison to Ionic applications. But it has been observed that most users are not able to encounter this drawback which is a plus point.

• Less Secure

If we talk about the security aspect in Ionic, the Ionic apps are less secure than native mobile applications. For example, we can not create a payment gateway app. 

• Restricted native functionality

Almost all the native functions are available in ionic applications but still, some functions are not available in the Ionic framework. To use the other functionality, developers need to create plugins to complete the purpose.

• Not recommended for video games

As we know, video games need high graphics. It is not recommended to create high-quality applications through ionic.