Mobile development - to be native or not!
Whenever you start a new cross-platform project, there is always the question about whether to use native languages and tools for each platform or just build an HTML/javascript solution that works fine on all platforms. The decision to use HTML/JS is easy for most teams - you have a single code base, you are working against a tight budget, you have hardly enough time to develop for one platform, you have to develop a website anyway to handle the fringe mobile platforms or to provide ubiquitous access, the team may have expertise only on a few platforms & you can create quick prototypes to impress the investors or execs etc. The rich ecosystem around tools & open source libraries also helps with the choice. Ionic has emerged as the leading platform for building applications for mobile platforms using HTML/JS technologies. It leverages angular JS & Cordova to offer the promise of build once and deploy everywhere. But, there is always a catch, right? The HTML...