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What should you know about the latest released Ionic Framework 4.0

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Tarun Nagar
What should you know about the latest released Ionic Framework 4.0

The good news for all web developers around the world is the all-new release of the ionic framework, generally known as "Ionic for everyone" by Ionic lovers. Ionic represents the outcome of more than two years of research and hard work, which transformed ionic into a powerful UI design system and d App framework for every web developer in the world. The ionic framework 4.0 release has a lot to offer.

Ionic Framework release:

With the all-new release, the Ionic framework is now poised to be distributed as a set of web component. This all is possible because of the custom element and Shadow DOM APIs present in each mobile and desktop browsers. This powered all the web developers in the world to use Ionic custom components in their mobile, desktop and progressive web app, just b the use of Ionic custom HTML tags in the app.
Alongside, the web developers can also stay assured for the Ionic component being stable for many years and there will no victim to frontend and framework churn. With the all-new release, ionic has now risen from "mobile for angular" to a web-based design system and app framework for every web developer no irrespective of the tool and framework they choose.

Ionic 4: The best Ionic yet

What is the best thing about this cutting edge Ionic 4 is, that it is not only the future proof version of our all releases ever delivered but also the fastest, most accessible and most complete? The seamless version Ionic 4 is well evaluated for platform theme and feel, customizability and most importantly performance. Hybrid mobile app development is going to be richer, customized and powerful with Ionic 4.

Ionic developers are hap with the release, which made them stronger with their coding competency. Now ever component is web component, through the powerful web component compiler project Stencil. The best performance and fastest ever Ionic components are optimized for load/render performance has reached to the coveted 100/100 score over the Google Lighthouse benchmark tool, which is heavily based on the framework used with Ionic. The good news for the Ionic developer is that Ionic has dramatically offered the improved design for all app starter templates, so the hybrid mobile app development will have now greater design that too faster than before.

Performance for the progressive web app (PWA)

Progressive Web Apps are at the hype right now and Ionic 4 is built to be the best UI framework for rendering the high-performance PWAs (progressive web apps).
Earlier Ionic not used to be like this. With the evolution of Ionic4, the new approaches for delivering and asynchronous component loading were highly demanded.

An ionic team has spent a year building the web component pipeline with the aid of web component compiler project Stencil generating tightly packed, loaded components, and delivered in the smart collections which consist of components developer are actually using. Today, the web component built by Stencil ranks top at the pack in terms of load performance and bundle size. For an angularjs development company, the guidelines to use Ionic 4 for reaching the progressive web app performance standards with some frontend framework React or Angular, as they require the additional efforts to stay high the performance. 


Customization:

The biggest advantage with the Ionic4 is the use of CSS variables (native CSS Custom properties)
 in every component. CSS custom properties expose a "public theming API", which provides the structure to developers for customizing the Ionic components, with no margin for incompatibility issues with future Ionic upgraded versions. CSS custom properties also make it possible to offer a standardized way to theme Ionic apps regardless of the framework used in your hybrid mobile app development. If you are an Angular JS development company, now you will not have to worry modify the Ionic Sass/CSS styles. This is a significant improvement, which was barred due to internal style modification.

Best documentation:

Ionic has the best developer documentation around the world and now the version 0.5 has been launched with dramatically improved performance and simpler design and easy navigation.

Iconic on top of Iconic:

With the more capable theming capabilities and framework agnostic web components, Iconic is perfect to be the foundation of your design system, means your Ionic on top of ionic.


Conclusion:

Now the more focus would be on the components. Getting started is made easy; you just have to create the new project directly from Ionic CLI. The upgraded material design components with better adherence to latest guidelines, flexibility with tabs, all new Screenshot testing tool for building a robust system specific team development are the things that Ionic 4 has brought for the web developers around the world. With so dramatic improvement, now Ionic is no way less than the future version.

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