According to best practices in ionic 3... what should I use? Pages or Components?

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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My questions is … what should i use when creating an app … Pages or Components? i don’t understand the difference. Can anybody explain me this?

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It’s certainly a little confusing, but I’ll take a stab at clarifying.

A component is basically anything with a template (i.e. the HTML file) and a controller (i.e. the TypeScript file). In general Ionic terms, a component is something that you’d put onto a page. So if you have a Model that you consistently render a certain way, you might create a MyModelComponent so that you can easily place on your page.
<my-model [model]="modelToDisplay"></my-model>

However, like I said before a Component is basically just a view + a controller, and so a Page also receives the @Component decorator, e.g.

@Component({
  selector: 'page-tabs',
  templateUrl: 'home.html',
})
export class HomePage {
...
}

So to back up a bit, pages are normally what you’re using (and what the NavController uses), but if you have some HTML that you’re re-using then you’d create a Component.

Hopefully this helps.