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Doug Schnelzer • 11 years ago

We're looking at creating an AngularJS app that uses Angular-UI for the web app and Ionic for the mobile version. We'd like to reuse the common components, services, etc. Have you seen anything written about best practices for doing this?

Eric Carmichael • 11 years ago

Nothing that I can think of the top of my head, but I did use Angular-UI on a project and it seems to be pretty easy to integrate with your own directives/filters/etc. most of the time. I didn't do a ton of work with it though, so my perspective may be kind of skewed towards the easier one-off problems and not really getting into maintenance after a year and tons of tweaks.

aveesh • 4 years ago

Hello - Like you - I think I belong in that littlefoot pic - am a PHP dev - know HTML, CSS, JS - just enough to not make it work - and trying to determine if I just go with mobile first bootstrap 5 or add ionic+capacitorJS (with plain vaniall JS without angular JS, vue js) for my web app. Your thougts/journey update would be soooper - thx

M ツ • 9 years ago

Nice one :) It Helps ..

Martin Birkby • 11 years ago

We use Ionic for enterprise grade mobile applications for internal use and it's ace. You can use node-webkit toi generate an executable version of the application which we can utilise on a small number of laptops we still have in our mobile infrastructure

Tomáš Hromník • 11 years ago

It's a pity Ionic is just for mobile. It looks great. I also want to write crossplatform apps. Maybe I will try to use Bootstrap with Ionic but I think it might be overkill.

Gavin Engel • 11 years ago

I'm looking for a single solution as well. Is the answer an Ionic/Bootstrap hodge-podge?

Zurb is about to release a "Foundation for Apps", but they don't seem concerned about Phonegap, which is disappointing.

Nikos • 11 years ago

Yeah, I'm going to try push this Ionic stuff at our company

RJ • 11 years ago

Great article. I hope they bring their experience to the desktop. I like what I'm seeing.

Max • 11 years ago

Hey eric,

I think you got everything right about Ionic. As for our mobile-only focus, this is the case for now, but will be expanding over time. When we looked at the market and at other tools, like Bootstrap, we didn't see any frameworks that had UI elements with very mobile-focused experiences. Bootstrap is great for responsive websites, but does little to make a great app experience on mobile.

Stay tuned and thanks for the great write up and feedback!

Eric Carmichael • 11 years ago

Whoa! Thanks for reading my blog man! Wowza!