Mobile

Ionic Framework

(Source: Documentation)

Launched in October 2020, Ionic is an open-source mobile UI toolkit used for building high-quality, cross-platform, and native web applications and desktop applications using technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It also supports integration with popular frameworks like Angular and React. The main reason for using Ionic is it comes with a great set of premade UI components that make making native iOS, native Android, and web applications a lot easier and faster.

Note that for getting access to native mobile features like camera and geolocation, Ionic's native runtime Capacitor is used.  Using the plugin of Capacitor, you can access the native API of the device in which your app is running, and you can then build truly native applications with Ionic Vue.

(Source: Documentation)

Installing a capacitor in your project and creating a config for your app can be done using two commands.

npm install @capacitor/core @capacitor/cli
npx cap init [name] [id] --web-dir=dist

For example, to get access to a user’s location from their device using the Capacitor Geolocation Plugin in an Ionic App.

import { Plugins } from '@capacitor/core';
async getLocation() {
    const { Geolocation } = Plugins;
    const coordinates = await Geolocation.getCurrentPosition();
    this.coords.lat = coordinates.coords.latitude;
    this.coords.lng = coordinates.coords.longitude;
  }

You can also try this code with Online Javascript Compiler

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NativeScript Vue

(Source: Documentation)

According to the official docs, NativeScript is an open-source framework for building truly native mobile applications using JavaScript. NativeScript-Vue is a plugin that allows you to use Vue.js to craft your mobile applications. NativeScript is a great fit in situations where you truly need a native iOS and Android app; you are an expert in JavaScript and Vue.js. 
It is a cross-platform mobile development framework that allows developers to use modern web technologies such as Angular and Vue.js or just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript to build mobile apps. It takes away the need to learn native technologies such as Swift or Objective-C for iOS and Java or Kotlin for Android and enables you to develop for iOS, Android, and the web, from a single JavaScript codebase. 

With this done, let’s look at some of the Frequently asked questions

FAQs

1. Can we develop Mobile Applications using Vue.js?
   Yes, Mobile applications can be made using Vue.js in combination with certain frameworks like ionic.
    
2. What is Vue.js used for?
   VueJS is primarily used to build web interfaces and one-page applications. In saying that, it can also be applied to both desktop and mobile app development thanks to the HTML extensions and JS base working in tandem with an Electron framework – making it a heavily favored frontend tool.

Key Takeaways

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