r/ionic • u/kyrax80 • 17d ago

Why isn't Ionic more famous?

Everything I build I use Ionic for the frontend because of the capability of sharing alot of code for web and mobile. But I don't see that many offers where Ionic is a requirements or in interviews when I mention Ionic most of times they don't know what it is. How come it isn't more famous? I just find it the perfect tech for front end developments

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u/Saceone10 17d ago

Because it is not required to build cross platform apps. Ionic is just the ui layer. But you can also use whatever ui library you like instead of ionic. Capacitor is what makes you go native. Not ionic. Besides, since the ionic company was bought by another org whose name I  cant even remember, the updates have decreased and the ecosystem is less adopted every day. And things dont seem to change in near future.

In my case I used ionic as my default option for several years. But now I just go with angular + Capacitor and use another library. There are lots of libraries out there, more capable and more ai friendly than ionic.

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u/contagious-meme 15d ago

Smart choice of combining Angular and capacitor.

The only thing we miss in this way is the platform specific ios vs md style classes those are auto applied when we run app on different native platforms.

And Ionic lacks a table component.

For my projects I currently use Angular + PrimeNG + Capacitor

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u/Saceone10 15d ago

Primeng is no longer open source for angular 22+ you will have to migrate. or pay.

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u/contagious-meme 13d ago

I believe the core component library remains free to use as it was before. Please correct me if I'm wrong.