8 Reasons to be excited about Ionic 2

A first look at Ionic 2 alpha

Presented at Hybrid Apps Berlin Meetup

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1. 8 Reasons to be excited about Ionic 2 Hybrid Apps Berlin - October 2015 Christian Justus
2. Christian Justus 3 years of exclusive hybrid app development Co-founder of Hybrid Heroes Worked with Ionic since Beta 4 Built over a dozen Ionic apps myself @krik
4. Facts and Figures 1M Apps created 200k monthly npm installs 20k GitHub stars 100k Forum posts 13k StackOverflow posts 3000+ Slack members
5. Status Quo The challenges in developing Ionic apps ... AngularJS − Easy to get started but hard to master − Released in 2009, couldn‘t keep up with evolving web technologies as good as younger frameworks Workflows − The amount of frontend tooling has gotten out of hand − Native packaging is error-prone
7. #1 Its Stack is state-of-the-art
8. #2 It includes batteries Best-practice configuration for all tooling, abstracted by Ionic CLI Bindings for a range of native interfaces Deployment and packaging via Ionic.io
9. #3 It’s surprisingly simple ES6 TypeScript to reduce boilerplate − Dependecy injection − Annotations CSS attribute selectors for styles Class selectors for custom styles
10. #4 It’s picking up where it left The same awesome components we loved in Ionic 1 A few extra ones − Segment Button − Search Bar (Others are still missing) − Virtual Scrolling − Popovers
11. #5 It’s beautiful Ionic 2 is more platform- agnostic than before, comes with − Material Design − More native-like UX and UI − Light/Dark Default Themes
12. #6 It‘s a joy to customize CSS attribute selectors go well with custom styles and naming conventions Dynamic color palettes Grouped animations based on Web Animations API (polyfilled on IOS)
13. #7 It handles your crazy screen flow New stack-based navigation can handle any navigation flow, eg. infinitely drilling into tree structure Url-based routing is available via Angular 2 Router
14. #8 It’s incredibly fast* *Angular 2 is supposed to deliver great performance. Real- world performance of Ionic 2 alpha is not there yet Performance is on the Roadmap
15. Get Started! http://ionicframework.com/docs/v2/
16. @hybridheroeshq http://hybridheroes.de