What is @ionic/core?
@ionic/core is a library of web components that allows developers to build high-quality mobile and desktop apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It provides a comprehensive set of UI components and utilities that are designed to work seamlessly across different platforms.
What are @ionic/core's main functionalities?
UI Components
Ionic Core provides a wide range of UI components such as buttons, cards, forms, and more. These components are designed to be highly customizable and work across different platforms.
<ion-button>Click Me</ion-button>
Navigation
Ionic Core includes a powerful routing system that allows developers to define navigation paths and manage the app's state. This makes it easy to create complex navigation flows.
<ion-router><ion-route url="/home" component="home-page"></ion-route></ion-router>
Theming
Ionic Core allows developers to easily customize the look and feel of their app using CSS variables. This makes it simple to apply consistent theming across the entire application.
:root { --ion-color-primary: #3880ff; }
Gestures
Ionic Core provides a gesture system that allows developers to add custom touch interactions to their components. This is useful for creating interactive and responsive user interfaces.
const gesture = createGesture({ el: myElement, gestureName: 'my-gesture', onMove: ev => console.log(ev) }); gesture.enable();
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@ionic/core
Ionic is an open source App Development Framework that makes it easy to build top quality Native and Progressive Web Apps with web technologies.
The Ionic Core package contains the Web Components that make up the reusable UI building blocks of Ionic Framework. These components are designed to be used in traditional frontend view libraries/frameworks (such as Stencil, React, Angular, or Vue), or on their own through traditional JavaScript in the browser.
Features
- Tiny, highly optimized components built with Stencil
- Styling for both iOS and Material Design
- No build or compiling required
- Simply add the static files to any project
- Lazy-loaded components without configuration
- Asynchronous rendering
- Theming through CSS Variables
How to use
Easiest way to start using Ionic Core is by adding a script tag to the CDN:
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@ionic/core@4.0.0-alpha.6/dist/ionic.js"></script>
Any Ionic component added to the webpage will automatically load. This includes writing the component tag directly in HTML, or using JavaScript such as document.createElement('ion-toggle')
.
Additionally, within this package is a dist/ionic.js
file and accompanying dist/ionic/
directory. These are the same files which are used by the CDN, and they're available in this package so they can be apart of an app's local development.
Framework Bindings
The @ionic/core
package can by used in simple HTML, or by vanilla JavaScript without any framework at all. Ionic also has packages that make it easier to integrate Ionic into a framework's traditional ecosystem and patterns. (However, at the lowest-level framework bindings are still just using Ionic Core and Web Components).
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