Announcing Ionic 2 Final

#1

Post by jthoms1 » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 4:40 PM UTC

Re: Announcing Ionic 2 Final

#2

Post by samkite » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 5:26 PM UTC

I'm always afraid of investing a lot of time into this type of frameworks and then having the rug pulled from under me. Most of the time I spent learning angular ended up being a waste of time and I'm still scarred from then.

Also that logo looks familiar?

Re: Announcing Ionic 2 Final

#3

Post by alexkavon » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 5:34 PM UTC

samkite wrote: post #2

I'm always afraid of investing a lot of time into this type of frameworks and then having the rug pulled from under me. Most of the time I spent learning angular ended up being a waste of time and I'm still scarred from then. Also that logo looks familiar?

You're not wrong. I've worked with Ionic v1 a fair amount. The framework is good for mockups and prototypes but nothing more. What ends up happening, as you app grows to include notifications, deep linking, etc, is you need to rely on more and more hacky thirdparty solutions. These days I either code natively or use Xamarin.

Re: Announcing Ionic 2 Final

#4

Post by jthoms1 » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 5:36 PM UTC

alexkavon wrote: post #3

samkite wrote: post #2

I'm always afraid of investing a lot of time into this type of frameworks and then having the rug pulled from under me. Most of the time I spent learning angular ended up being a waste of time and I'm still scarred from then. Also that logo looks familiar?

You're not wrong. I've worked with Ionic v1 a fair amount. The framework is good for mockups and prototypes but nothing more. What ends up happening, as you app grows to include notifications, deep linking, etc, is you need to rely on more and more hacky thirdparty solutions. These days I either code natively or use Xamarin.

Ionic2 is quite a bit different. In my opinion it scales really well especially with Typescript. Most of features that would have required thirdparty solutions are baked into ionic-native.

Re: Announcing Ionic 2 Final

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 5:38 PM UTC

jthoms1 wrote: post #4

alexkavon wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not wrong. I've worked with Ionic v1 a fair amount. The framework is good for mockups and prototypes but nothing more. What ends up happening, as you app grows to include notifications, deep linking, etc, is you need to rely on more and more hacky thirdparty solutions. These days I either code natively or use Xamarin.

Ionic2 is quite a bit different. In my opinion it scales really well especially with Typescript. Most of features that would have required thirdparty solutions are baked into ionic-native.

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Re: Announcing Ionic 2 Final

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Post by SparkyMcUnicorn » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 5:39 PM UTC

samkite wrote: post #2

I'm always afraid of investing a lot of time into this type of frameworks and then having the rug pulled from under me. Most of the time I spent learning angular ended up being a waste of time and I'm still scarred from then. Also that logo looks familiar?

> Also that logo looks familiar?

Hydrogen?

https://www.google.com/search?q=hydrogen&tbm=isch

Re: Announcing Ionic 2 Final

#7

Post by hatsix » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 5:40 PM UTC

I don't understand the 'final'... they're not stopping development in any way.

So, isn't it just.. Ionic 2? or maybe Ionic 2.0?

Re: Announcing Ionic 2 Final

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Post by erikpukinskis » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 5:41 PM UTC

"complex" and "object oriented" does not describe any future of JavaScript that I am excited about.

Re: Announcing Ionic 2 Final

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Post by stackus » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 5:43 PM UTC

hatsix wrote: post #7

I don't understand the 'final'... they're not stopping development in any way. So, isn't it just.. Ionic 2? or maybe Ionic 2.0?

Final as in no more 2.0 release candidates.

Re: Announcing Ionic 2 Final

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Post by squeaky-clean » Wed, Jan 25, 2017, 5:44 PM UTC

hatsix wrote: post #7

I don't understand the 'final'... they're not stopping development in any way. So, isn't it just.. Ionic 2? or maybe Ionic 2.0?

> So, isn't it just.. Ionic 2? or maybe Ionic 2.0?

Final is how they signify a version is ready for production and they'll stop modifying it. Up until now they've have 6 upgrades as Ionic 2.0.0-alpha, then 11 as Ionic 2.0.0-beta, 6 as release candidate, and finally, Ionic 2.0.0.