ionic-docs VS swc

Ionic Framework components are used to create the mobile interface and Ionic Capacitor will be used to package the web application for deployment on to mobile devices.

Ionic Documentation - The official Ionic documentation is a great place to start. It offers a comprehensive overview of the framework's features and provides detailed instructions on how to use them.

But these actions are not the ones I will take right now. You can read more on them in Ionic, Capacitor, Apple, and Google documentations.

Ionic (Front-end) As I said earlier, please check the docs Ionic docs

It is a documentation framework by Facebook which is used by some of the giants in the industry like: ionic, redux, react native and hundreds more as mentioned on this page. But do not assume it to be just a documentation tool.

Source code walkthrough for a template for Vuejs authentication flow using firebase for authentication, latest Ionic Framework version 6, and Pinia for State Management.

If you're interested in bringing native navigation patterns to web apps, take a look at Ionic Framework which has had this for a long time (and recently added Vue support). Demo of some of these patterns (screen needs to be wide enough to display the phone): https://ionicframework.com/docs

Ionic framework

First, we switched the default compiler for new projects from Babel to SWC (Speedy Web Compiler). SWC is dramatically faster than Babel and requires zero configuration. We’ll continue to support Babel in any project currently using it.

SWC

As the reference explains “**SWC** (Speedy Web Compiler) is an extensible Rust-based platform that can be used for both compilation and bundling. Using SWC with Nest CLI is a great and simple way to significantly speed up your development process.”

This is specifically about breaking the myth that performing expensive self-contained operations (e.g, parsing GraphQL) in a native extension (C, Rust, etc.) is always faster than the interpreted language.

The JS ecosystem has the same problem, people think rewriting everything in Rust will be a magic fix. In practice, there's always the problem highlighted in the post (transitioning is expensive, causes optimization bailouts), as well as the cost of actually getting the results back into Node-land. This is why SWC abandoned the JS API for writing plugins - constantly bouncing back and forth while traversing AST nodes was even slower than Babel (e.g https://github.com/swc-project/swc/issues/1392#issuecomment-...)

Why Speedy Web Compiler ?

FTA is a TypeScript static analysis tool built on the speedy foundations of swc. FTA is fast; capable of analyzing more than 150 files per second on typical hardware, it offers a powerful addition to your code quality toolkit.

Very cool! I'm curious, is this intended for dev tooling?

For example, I could see this (or something similar) being useful as the engine for a typescript language server that would be faster than the standard one

But if it's not aimed at 1:1 with tsc, would it be intended more for something like swc[1]?

Or what would you expect people to use this for, besides just being a cool project to learn from?

[1] https://github.com/swc-project/swc

This is... good news, but I still cannot fathom using the default Typescript compiler for regular development. Seriously, leave the type-checking to your IDE and CICD chain, and switch to using tsx (https://www.npmjs.com/package/tsx) or swc (https://swc.rs/) and you will _immediately_ notice the difference in speed and productivity.