Great post Philipp! On the topic of device debugging, this is absolutely possible. We have docs on that here: ionicframework.com/docs/troublesho.... Another popular tool for iOS debugging is inspect.dev.
I'm glad you mentioned the community size aspect. One thing people don't always realize is that Ionic + Capacitor is part of the broader web ecosystem, while Flutter/Xamarin/etc. are self-contained/closed ecosystems. Ionic devs can use practically any web library, share code with their web app, and use their existing web and web framework experience. If you're a React dev then using React with Capacitor will be the most like building with React on the web where all the React libraries you want to use pretty much just work (which is not the case for React Native).
This has given the platform strong staying power since developers see it as an "electron for mobile" where they are basically building a web app but extending it with native mobile functionality.
Great post Philipp! On the topic of device debugging, this is absolutely possible. We have docs on that here: ionicframework.com/docs/troublesho.... Another popular tool for iOS debugging is inspect.dev.
I'm glad you mentioned the community size aspect. One thing people don't always realize is that Ionic + Capacitor is part of the broader web ecosystem, while Flutter/Xamarin/etc. are self-contained/closed ecosystems. Ionic devs can use practically any web library, share code with their web app, and use their existing web and web framework experience. If you're a React dev then using React with Capacitor will be the most like building with React on the web where all the React libraries you want to use pretty much just work (which is not the case for React Native).
This has given the platform strong staying power since developers see it as an "electron for mobile" where they are basically building a web app but extending it with native mobile functionality.
Hi Max,
I've edited the part about debugging.
Thank you for that and of course for having Ionic at all :) !
I appreciate you've read it.
cheers
Philipp