Hi All
Our company built an e-commerce app with ionic v1 several years ago, and this app is going to be in use for the next few years at least. We have to maintain the app for changes like the new iOS version, which just came out, or updates to some plugins, but so far it’s been nothing too huge.
Ionic 1 is getting older and older though, and a few weeks ago we started discussing if we might even need to update the ionic version to 5.x. Right now we’re trying to prepare a list of reasons why or if an upgrade would make sense or not.
The reasons we’ve listed so far are
- We’re concerned about support being cut in the upcoming 2-3 years for ionic 1.x (support for the new iOS and Android OS versions that come out)
- Security issues being found with the old angular 1 version our app is built on.
- Huge performance leaps of the app and build process
- Access to the newest features that modern phones offer. (Although here we could just technically upgrade our cordova version?)
Do these reasons seem valid or are we missing something important? What are your thoughts?
So far even with mentioned reasons we’re not fully sure if an app upgrade from ionic 1 to ionic 5.x is necessary.