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title: Ionic
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---
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## Ionic framework
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Ionic is an HTML5 mobile app development framework targeted at building hybrid mobile apps.
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Hybrid apps have many benefits over pure native apps, specifically in terms of platform support, speed of development, and access to 3rd party code.
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### Building Hybrid Apps With Ionic
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Those familiar with web development will find the structure of an Ionic app straightforward. At its core, it’s just a web page running in an native app shell! That means we can use any kind of HTML, CSS, and Javascript we want.
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As of Ionic 2, the framwork uses Angular (previously using AngularJS), please see seperate freeCodeCamp guides on Angular.
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### Before we can start playing with Ionic. Let’s prepare our system first:
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The easiest way to use Ionic is via its [CLI](https://ionicframework.com/docs/cli/). Those familiar with [Angular's CLI](https://cli.angular.io/) should see some resemblances.
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Prerequisites:
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- nodejs / npm
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- xcode (if wanting to build iOS apps)
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- Android SDK (if building Android apps)
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Install ionic CLI:
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```shell
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npm i -g ionic cordova
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```
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Create a new project and run in the browser:
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```shell
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ionic start MyFirstApp blank
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cd MyFirstApp
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ionic serve
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```
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### Ionic 4 Beta:
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The latest release of Ionic is [Ionic 4](https://blog.ionicframework.com/announcing-ionic-4-beta/). Having completly rewritten all their Angular components as web compoents, Ionic is now platform agnostic with the ability to use Anguar, Vue, React, or plain JavaScript.
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To use Ionic 4 make sure you have the latest version of the Ionic CLI:
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```shell
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npm i -g ionic
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```
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and use the type arguments
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```shell
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ionic start MyFirstIonic4App tabs --type=angular
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cd MyFirstIonic4App
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ionic serve
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```
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Ionic 4's CLI now uses Angular's CLI for its building and routing. For other frameworks see the quickstarts:
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- [Ionic Angular](https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic/tree/master/angular)
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- [Ionic Vue](https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic/blob/master/vue/README.md)
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- [Ionic React](https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic/tree/master/react)
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