The Ionic development team has released Ionic Vue and sees it as an important milestone for the open source mobile app framework Ionic. The native Vue version is designed to help developers develop progressive web apps for iOS, Android and the web. Vue 3, the third major version of the well-known JavaScript framework, recently appeared. Ionic Vue provides support for the new features.

“Ionic for Everyone” Ionic Framework originally had mobile development with Angular.js in mind. But with version 4 the tool opened up for development with other frameworks. The release relies on a collection of Web Components with Custom Elements and Shadow DOM APIs that are available in every contemporary browser.

The Ionic team provided the fourth major version of the framework in a blog post under the motto “Ionic for Everyone”. The control of the Ionic user interface is based on Web Component APIs, which basically work with all major front-end frameworks. However, since Ionic must also integrate the routing system of a framework in order to enable reliable navigation, Ionic still has to deliver specific functions for this framework. In addition, developers expect certain things to work as they normally would with their preferred framework, and not as they would with standardized web components. Ionic has therefore released the special bindings for the popular JavaScript frameworks React and Vue.js.

New: Ionic Vue As with the React version of the Ionic Framework, the team behind the application has decided to use the official router vue-router that comes with Vue. In addition, the router’s API has been expanded to include the component ion-router-outlet to process the animations of the Ionic Framework can. This component should be used instead of router-view , which is used in Vue applications. For more information on using the advanced component, see the announcement post.

According to the post, Vue does not support the development of mobile applications per se. However, Ionic Vue can be combined with Capacitor, the cross-platform native L