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Max Lynch in Ionic

Aug 5, 2016

How to write Cordova Plugins

Cordova Plugins are one of the dark arts of hybrid app development, helping web apps running natively access the full power of the device underneath. Their obscurity separates the haves from the have nots, with whole swaths of Cordova users relying on a relatively small group of…

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Max Lynch in Ionic

Jul 27, 2015

The Web Platform is too Low-Level

A day rarely goes by without someone lamenting the “problems” of web technologies, often specifically on mobile. They’re either too slow, lack native look-and-feel, or just don’t have a smooth enough UX. Their death has long been prophesied in the annals of technology.

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Max Lynch in Ionic

Jul 23, 2018

Building a company around TypeScript

Over the last few years, TypeScript has emerged as a powerhouse in the frontend world, helping teams build and maintain large, complex frontend software projects across a variety of frontend technologies.

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Max Lynch in Ionic

Jan 9, 2017

Ionic’s 2016 - By the Numbers

2016 was a big year for Ionic, the web developers in our community building mobile apps, and the companies that have embraced Ionic as their mobile app dev platform of choice. Here are some of the numbers we saw and milestones we achieved:

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Katie Ginder-Vogel in Ionic

Feb 16, 2016

The Rise of the Mobile Web

Web and mobile developers got a little surprise as 2015 came to a close: the mobile web rose again, driven by…

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Katie Ginder-Vogel in Ionic

Feb 2, 2016

Ionic and the Internet of Things

In September, I wrote my first post about how Ionic apps can interface with hardware, like sensors…

Uri Shaked in Ionic

Sep 30, 2016

Smart Bulbs and IoT: Our Workshop at AngularConnect 2016

AngularConnect is the biggest Angular Conference in Europe. This year, it focused around the long anticipated release of Angular 2 (for more, check out the sessions and videos!).

Max Lynch in Ionic

Nov 14, 2016

Making Open Source a Happier Place

Open Source is one of the most wonderful aspects of the software development world. Through OSS we all get high quality, well tested, and enduring technology for zero dollars, and can find many people to hire and collaborate with that understand and use the technology…

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Max Lynch in Ionic

May 26, 2017

Hybrid apps are unstoppable

In the last year or so, we hit escape velocity (for lack of a better term) for hybrid app development. The stack is unstoppable now, growing fast, and powering serious apps with very happy users.

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Max Lynch in Ionic

Dec 20, 2016

Service Workers do not a Progressive Web App make

I hear this question a lot from Ionic developers: “iOS doesn’t support service workers, can I still build Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) on iOS”?

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