Congrats on having such a successful app.įunnily enough, I actually wrote this post because if you had asked me about cross platform web apps 6 months ago I would have said the exact same thing you just said. We would never dream of going back to the nightmare that developing a complex and performant app with Ionic was in my experience. And the app itself went from an appstore rating of (iirc) around 2.8 stars to its current rating of 4.6. We attracted better-qualified colleagues who have been a great learning resource. The application itself is immeasurably better now. The application is faster, more reliable, the bugs are locatable and fixable the entire framework feels solid and professional. Luckily our management decided to switch to a native application, and learning Swift has been the most fulfilling part of my entire career. I personally felt the entire experience was a horrible professional dead-end. I work in a team developing an app that has around 5million users, and we abandoned an Ionic first version 5 years ago, after a couple of years of nightmarish development, where (after the first implementation, which went reasonably well) we spent most of our development time fixing inexplicable bugs, chasing native features, getting inconsistent UI problems, broken builds from package updates and a myriad other problems that just drained our energy and were generally dispiriting. This post makes very big claims based on a very basic application that doesn't seem to be much more than a few toggle buttons and a couple of animations thrown in, and some 'statistics' that don't appear to be based on any actual facts.
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