Hello, I’m tasked with creating an ERP system for our company (Angular) with a minified mobile version (ionic). Instead of creating an angular app alone and a separate ionic 3 app, I thought of creating a PWA using latest ionic version and to modify/reuse the same code to target mobile devices.
My question is what is best in this situation? and cons and pros for each choice
- Create separate angular and ionic apps.
- Create PWA App using ionic and then modify the code to build IOS and Android platforms.
- Create a normal Ionic app with web app ui/ux feel and build IOS, Android, and Browser platforms.
Note that I want to use many of ionic components (modals, alerts, toasts, fabs, etc…) in the Web version.
Thank you.
Hi @mohammed_ali!
Number 3 is definitely doable, and probably the easiest, since you can reuse all the logic. Ionic has a great responsive grid with which you can use to modify the page layout according to the screen size. Then is just a matter of running ionic cordova build android, ionic cordova build ios or ionic build --prod for the web app and uploading the www directory to a server.
If you need some pointers about how to design from mobile to tablet and desktop using the same code, check out this article: https://blog.ionicframework.com/tips-tricks-for-ionic-on-desktop/
Best,
Rodrigo
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Hi Fdez,
This article is amazing and exactly what I had in mind and wanted to design, I have been searching and testing both PWA and browser for the past couple of hours and I was leaning more to number 3, But after I read your article I will definitely go with number 3.
Great article and work on Savelist
Thank you.
Thanks! 
Glad to help and get more people on board with PWAs in Ionic 
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