ionic-team/capacitor
Build cross-platform Native Progressive Web Apps for iOS, Android, and the Web ⚡️
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 11 days ago, with 296 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Enables building cross-platform native Progressive Web Apps using a single codebase with JavaScript and web technologies.
- Offers a modern plugin API and seamless native SDK integration with backward compatibility for Cordova plugins.
- Use for developing mobile apps that run natively on iOS, Android, and the web with shared code and APIs.
- Use for creating custom native plugins in Swift or Kotlin to extend app functionality beyond web capabilities.
- Ideal for enhancing existing web apps with native device features without rewriting code for each platform.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
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- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
⚡️ Cross-platform apps with JavaScript and the Web ⚡️
Capacitor lets you run web apps natively on iOS, Android, Web, and more with a single codebase and cross-platform APIs.
Capacitor provides a cross-platform API and code execution layer that makes it easy to call Native SDKs from web code and to write custom native plugins that your app may need. Additionally, Capacitor provides first-class Progressive Web App support so you can write one app and deploy it to the app stores and the mobile web.
Capacitor comes with a Plugin API for building native plugins. Plugins can be written inside Capacitor apps or packaged into an npm dependency for community use. Plugin authors are encouraged to use Swift to develop plugins in iOS and Kotlin (or Java) in Android.
For new apps, we recommend trying the Ionic Framework with Capacitor.
Daily snapshots
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+728 stars over 84 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +6 on Sep 1.
Forks
1.3K+88
Open issues
145+30
Compared with peers in Android
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| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rustdesk/rustdesk | 128.9K | +859 | 75 | 1 day ago |
| google/comprehensive-rust | 33.5K | — | 45 | — |
| appium/appium | 22.2K | — | 60 | 1 day ago |
| ionic-team/capacitor | 17.1K | — | 64 | 11 days ago |
| bia-pain-bache/BPB-Worker-Panel | 13.9K | — | 22 | 109 days ago |
| JetBrains/koog | 4.7K | — | 58 | 45 days ago |
| Category median | 22.2K | — | 58 | — |
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