The Ionic Dev Newsletter - January 2018

Exciting updates from the Ionic team! Hello, 2018. Let's get this party started! 🔥 What's first on the agenda? PWAs! We've been working hard to make Ionic the best option for building Progressive Web Apps, and yesterday we announced the beta release of the Ionic PWA Toolkit! 🎉 [Check out the blog to learn more!]( With Google announcing that they will be [ranking sites based on performance]( on mobile devices, now is the time to look into upgrading your mobile web experience to a PWA! Other Open Source Updates - [Meet Capacitor]( a new native project we’ve been working on. Capacitor was announced under the codename “Avocado” on the [last Ionic Show](. The team is hard at work on Capacitor and we hope to be able to share more soon! - We're getting closer and closer to the 1.0 release of [Stencil](. The last feature needed for 1.0, automatic code splitting using dynamic ES imports, will be completed soon. - There's a big Framework release coming soon! We're moving to super-fast web components that you can use with React, Vue, or any other JS framework. Built with Ionic - Made a new year's resolution to read more in 2018? Check out [Comichaus]( an awesome Ionic app for reading all sorts of Indie comics. Perfect if you want to get into comics or just want to read bit more! Community News & Events - Jorge Vergara recently released a new book on [using Firebase Firestore in Ionic](. - Josh Morony released a tutorial on building turn by turn navigation using Ionic and Google Maps! [Check it out here](. - Paul Halliday wrote an [article on using Ionic in Vue.js]( - Simon Grimm released an article going over the [top 10 common problems]( you may run into when building your app with Ionic and how to fix them. 💙 The Ionic Team You're receiving these emails because you signed up on [ionicframework.com](. Click here to [unsubscribe](. Ionic 121 S. Pinckney St. Ste. 300 Madison, WI 53703