Who uses Ionic for application development?

I've been working with Ionic/React + Capacitor for the past 2 years. Having worked with teams on native development for years in a previous project, I'm very happy to be able to distribute to both iOS & Android with one code base.

That said, I agree with the performance issues, even on the latest versions. Animations have lagged in some cases and I've seen strange visual artifacts in some cases.

Additionally, the biggest issue for me has been the lack of being able to deliver background notifications for data updates on iOS. The Ionic/Capacitor team has punted on that and said "write it in native code" which is very frustrating.

As a result of this, and a more GUI based tool, I am considering looking into FlutterFlow as an alternative.

i tried building with ionic and angular but it was so slow. i tried so much to make it faster but in the end i switched to good old react native. But if i ever build an app again i am defenitly learning flutter because react native is not that good :)

I used to work with it a lot many years ago (before Capacitor came along - it was all Cordova back then, and Angular 1.x !!).

I loved working in it, and wish I was still doing hybrid app development so I could continue using the latest generation of it. I understanding the tooling is much better for automating build etc. - I remember the old version, building for iOS was not too bad, but building, signing and deploying the Android packages was a painful nightmare.

I wrote some iOS apps in Objective-C before that, and Ionic was a real game changer when it came to simplifying development across multiple platforms and form factors.

I have used Ionic on a few Apps at work. All of my apps used Ionic with Angular and Cordova. I will be converting our corporate app from Cordova to Capacitor in a few months.

I use StencilJS for cross framework work. It's amazing and built by the team that built Ionic. Highly suggest it. But Ionic is awesome to if you know what you are doing.

I’ve used Ionic for side projects for a couple of years. I loved it, but at some point I made the switch to native, because I was running into the limitations of react native / Ionic. With native code (mostly for iOS) I build better performing apps and I build them faster. However, building cross-platform in native code is definitely much slower as a single developer for obvious reasons, so I will gladly pickup Ionic again when I build an app that needs the be cross-platform from the start.

I recommend just stick with first party. The only cross-platform would be from megatech such as Flutter or Blazor/Xamarin. Purely from support standpoint.