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Ionic framework

A powerful cross-platform UI toolkit for building native-quality iOS, Android, and Progressive Web Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

From ionic-team·Updated June 12, 2026·View on GitHub·

Ionic is an open source app development toolkit for building modern, fast, top-quality cross-platform native and Progressive Web Apps from a single codebase with JavaScript and the Web. The project is written primarily in TypeScript, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2013. It has gained significant community traction with 52,512 stars and 13,359 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: angular, capacitor, framework, frontend, ionic.

Latest release: v8.8.10
June 10, 2026View Changelog →
<p align="center"> <a href="#"> <img alt="Ionic" src="https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-framework/blob/main/.github/assets/logo.png?raw=true" width="60" /> </a> </p> <h1 align="center"> Ionic </h1> <p align="center"> Ionic is an open source app development toolkit for building modern, fast, top-quality cross-platform native and Progressive Web Apps from a single codebase with JavaScript and the Web. </p> <p align="center"> Ionic is based on <a href="https://www.webcomponents.org/introduction">Web Components</a>, which enables significant performance, usability, and feature improvements alongside support for popular web frameworks like <a href="https://angular.io/">Angular</a>, <a href="https://reactjs.com/">React</a>, and <a href="https://vuejs.org/">Vue</a>. </p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-framework/blob/main/LICENSE"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg" alt="Ionic Framework is released under the MIT license." /> </a> <a href="https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-framework/blob/main/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/PRs-welcome-brightgreen.svg" alt="PRs welcome!" /> </a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Ionicframework"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/twitter/follow/ionicframework.svg?label=Follow%20@IonicFramework" alt="Follow @IonicFramework"> </a> <a href="https://ionic.link/discord"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/discord/520266681499779082?color=7289DA&label=%23ionic&logo=discord&logoColor=white" alt="Official Ionic Discord" /> </a> </p> <h2 align="center"> <a href="https://ionicframework.com/docs/intro/cli">Quickstart</a> <span> · </span> <a href="https://ionicframework.com/docs/"> Documentation </a> <span> · </span> <a href="https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-framework/blob/main/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md">Contribute</a> <span> · </span> <a href="https://blog.ionicframework.com/">Blog</a> <br /> Community: <a href="https://ionic.link/discord">Discord</a> <span> · </span> <a href="https://forum.ionicframework.com/">Forums</a> <span> · </span> <a href="https://twitter.com/Ionicframework">Twitter</a> </h2>

Packages

ProjectPackageVersionDownloadsLinks
Core@ionic/coreversion<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ionic/core" target="_blank"><img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/@ionic/core.svg" alt="NPM Downloads" /></a>README.md
Angular@ionic/angularversion<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ionic/angular" target="_blank"><img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/@ionic/angular.svg" alt="NPM Downloads" /></a>README.md
Vue@ionic/vueversion<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ionic/vue" target="_blank"><img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/@ionic/vue.svg" alt="NPM Downloads" /></a>README.md
React@ionic/reactversion<a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ionic/react" target="_blank"><img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/@ionic/react.svg" alt="NPM Downloads" /></a>README.md

Looking for the ionic-angular package? Ionic 3 has been moved to the ionic-v3 repo. See Earlier Versions.

Getting Started

Start a new project by following our documentation.
We would love to hear from you! If you have any feedback or run into issues using our framework, please file
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Migration Guides

Already have an Ionic app? These guides will help you migrate to the latest versions.

Examples

The Ionic Conference App is a full featured Ionic app. It is the perfect starting point for learning and building your own app.

Contributing

Thanks for your interest in contributing! Read up on our guidelines for
contributing
and then look through our issues with a help wanted
label.

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

Earlier Versions

The source code for earlier versions of the Ionic Framework may exist in other repositories. Please open issues and pull requests in their respective repositories.

Contributors

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