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Welcome to Ionic Show 12!
In this episode, Mike Hartington, along with guests Adam Bradley, Brandy Carney, and Liam DeBeasi discuss the upcoming release of Ionic 5! Here's what's covered:
INTRODUCTION
00:20 Round circle introductions
00:55 How is Ionic 5 different than other versions of Ionic?
WHAT’S NEW IN IONIC 5?
03:54 v5 Deprecation warnings available in latest Ionic 4 version
06:22 New Design Changes - iOS and Android
07:06 Brandy’s dog makes an appearance
08:30 Ionicons v5 overview - over 1,100 icons!
12:48 What we've learned building Ionic 4
16:30 Shadow Parts - unlocking further UI component customization
19:18 Gesture and Animation APIs
28:28 Large Titles and Collapsible Headers
30:15 What does the future hold for Ionic 6 (and beyond)?
34:00 Breaking Changes
37:58 Angular 9: Smaller apps, Server-side rendering, and more
45:46 Improved dark theming support
OUTRO
48:00 Ionic 5 Release date announced! ;)
Matt Netkow chats with Bryant Plano, Solutions Consultant on the Ionic Customer Success team, about Capacitor, Ionic's new cross-platform native app runtime.
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Mike Hartington chats with community member Michael Callaghan about building apps cross platform and how that has changed in his time as a developer.
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Welcome to another Ionic Show!
In this episode of the Ionic Show, Max and Ben hand the hosting reigns over to none other than 'Wisdom Beard' himself, Mike Hartington, with guests Adam Bradley, Josh Thomas, and Ely Lucas to talk all things Ionic React! Here's what they covered:
INTRODUCTION
00:20 Round circle introductions
01:28 Mike shows off his "very nice" mug
IONIC REACT RC
02:33 Ionic React Release Candidate ships + reflections
04:10 Notice that Adam never once mentioned wEb cOmPoNeNtS
06:30 Coming full circle on the original cross-framework dream
07:30 A brief history of Ionic Framework
09:20 How Web Components changed everything
HOW IT ALL WORKS
13:02 How does Ionic React actually work?
18:15 TypeScript and why it's important
21:00 When React and Typescript became friends
22:18 How views are managed in Ionic React
25:10 Achieving a mobile experience you'd expect
28:30 Maintaining a high level of performance
30:47 Working with external React libraries
33:00 What about React Native?
36:40 Handling component styles
40:00 What's included?
COMMUNITY Q&A
42:10 Should the community expect more UI Components?
43:46 Are there any plans for more themes?
47:01 Do we have any opinions on handling mono repos with Ionic?
49:29 What's the status on Ionic Vue?
OUTRO
53:50 Wrap up
Thanks, everyone and see you next time!
Josh, Matt, Ben, and Max discuss what the Ionic team has been up to, including Ionic 4, Stencil, and Capacitor.
Show Outline:
Stencil background: How it came to be when creating Ionic 4
Our bet on web components and how they help us make Ionic 4 the most performant Ionic yet.
Angular 8 release: Their “batteries included” approach is beloved by developers and the ionic team
Shadow DOM and Web Components: Unlocking customizability
CSS variables: Required to use Shadow DOM. To see the power behind them, check out the Color Generator tool
Ben swears. Bad Ben!
Why upgrade to Ionic 4? “It’s just Angular” for the most part. See our migration guide. New release notes docs page.
Ionic docs: Renewed effort to “make the docs dope”
Max email from schools teaching web development. An investment in Ionic is an investment that sticks with you because it’s “just” web dev.
Status of Ionic React - when is 1.0 coming?
Trolling Matt: Tweet @matthewkremer about how to build a WhatsApp clone
Capacitor: background, history of this new project.
Who’s building apps with Capacitor today? Community app shout outs, including Volleyball score, Sencrop, Groot News Radio, Sworkit, Southwest Airlines
Ionic’s own Matt Kremer porting Pokemon field guide app GoRanger from Ionic 3 + Cordova to Ionic 4 + Capacitor
Stencil One beta: Focused on stability, constructible stylesheets, incredibly small bundle sizes. Updated compiler offers faster compilation speed.
Company pain points: Love Stencil because teams often use a variety of web frameworks. They can build reusable web components that teams can share, thus avoiding having to reinvent the wheel each time.
Q&A from the community, including tools that the Ionic team uses
Conclusion: Where do you see Ionic in 10 years?
“We’re a Web Company.” - Mic drop from Ben
David Dal Busco from the Ionic Zurich meetup group discusses how he uses Stencil-based web components to power his Progressive Web App DeckDeckGo, an open source PWA presentation creator.
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Dogu Taskiran of Stambol Studios joins us to discuss the evolution of AR and VR on the web. In short, AR/VR support on the web is still evolving, but now is a great time to give it a try. Companies are building serious app experiences today, especially in the retail/e-commerce space.
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After listening to this episode, do you still have questions about how a hybrid approach to app development can help you deliver a better user experience while cutting costs and improving time to market? Connect with one of our App Strategists or email Matt at netkow@ionic.io to discuss how Ionic can help you address your unique goals and challenges.
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Demand for mobile experiences is growing, faster than IT teams can deliver them. Enter cross-platform hybrid development: Speed. Efficiency. Every Device. Join Matt & Mike for a deep dive into the benefits and challenges of both hybrid and native app development approaches.
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