Native-Speed my a<i></i>. Sorry but people should stop lying about it. Angular is great but it's damn slow no matter what people say about it. And Webapps UIs are never as fast as native UI on mobile. Once these 2 things have been debunked,we can talk honestly about the advantages of using things like Ionic or other solutions.<p>I personnally look forward to using React Native ,as a Titatinium user, there is no question using native components directly instead of html+CSS in webviews is better, faster and when the UI kit of my mobile is updated , I don't have to restyle all the components to match the current design. If I need a webview,well I have access to the webview anyway.But all the app SHOULDN'T live inside a webview.
Surprised no one has mentioned <a href="http://www.appgyver.com/supersonic/" rel="nofollow">http://www.appgyver.com/supersonic/</a> It's basically Ionic with at least SOME of the native speed gripes other comments are complaining about.<p>I agree that it's not going to meet native but in most cases it's _good enough_ and you are getting both platforms for free. If you can build for both platforms and don't mind learning native stuff then more power to you, but Ionic definitely has it's place. Until I see React Canvas reaching the maturity of Ionic, it'll have its place. I also hope Ionic works on mobile browsers as long as possible, because not many other mobile web frameworks match it.
come the f-- on. ionic is using css transforms on a good day. At least famo.us is trying harder and react.js is going native. I'm still on the fence if the extra effort is worth it but have been dabbling in java and objective c/swift. Worst case, I'll have a lot more to offer than just being a JavaScripter even if its damn hard.