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At Ionic, we focus on open web technologies, which are available to anyone with an internet connection, so that as many people as possible can build mobile apps in a cost-effective way.<\/p>\n

Like WordPress, the top web publishing platform in the world, which seeks to \u201cdemocratize publishing, one website at a time\u201d, Ionic seeks to change the future of mobile development, so that anyone can build beautiful, performant mobile apps for all the app stores.<\/p>\n

\u201cIonic and WordPress have many parallels,\u201d says Scott Bolinger of AppPresser<\/a>, creators of Reactor<\/a>. \u201cIonic has become a gateway to app development, similar to how WordPress is a gateway to web development. It\u2019s so easy to create great apps that it makes you want to dig deeper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bolinger noted that Ionic is creating a micro-economy around an open source product, the same way WordPress did. \u201cThat\u2019s great for developers, but it also helps businesses get high quality multi-platform apps more affordably,\u201d says Bolinger. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Ionic apps become the #1 app publishing platform, just like WordPress is to the web.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reactor takes advantage of the parallels between Ionic and WordPress, allowing an Ionic app to connect to a WordPress site.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s still difficult for non-developers to use Ionic to build an app that connects to a WordPress site,\u201d says Bolinger. \u201cThat’s where Reactor comes in. It allows anyone to build an Ionic app that integrates almost any content from WordPress with no coding. We\u2019ve been updating our platform so that it\u2019s easy to make a great app with the latest Ionic codebase.\u201d<\/p>\n

Julien Renaux, author of a popular tutorial<\/a> about how to build an app using Ionic, WordPress, and Angular, created an open source project<\/a>, the WordPress Hybrid Client (WPHC)<\/a>, as a way to promote his blog<\/a>, which runs with WordPress.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I often talk about Ionic and AngularJS on my blog, the idea to use Ionic came up naturally,\u201d Renaux says. \u201cThe performance and the user experience were so good (rated 5 stars on Google Play) that I decided to open source it.\u201d<\/p>\n

WPHC offers developers a startup kit written in ES6 that enables WP-API v2 capabilities out of the box, for free. Add your REST API address in the config and get free access to posts, pages, authors, taxonomies, comments, bookmarks, and accessibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has never been easier for developers to create an application based on WordPress data that fast,\u201d says Renaux.<\/p>\n

Renaux has added several unique features:<\/p>\n