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The <a href="https://ionicframework.com/" target="_blank">Ionic Framework</a>, created by<a href="https://twitter.com/maxlynch" target="_blank"> Max Lynch</a> and<a href="https://twitter.com/benjsperry" target="_blank"> Ben Sperry</a>, is a premier tool for cross-platform mobile development built on top of the <a href="https://angularjs.org/" target="_blank">AngularJS</a> framework. It has become a <em>de facto</em> standard with 5M developers downloading the tool to build 3.1M Ionic apps for organizations as diverse as NASA, Target, The Smithsonian, Caterpillar, and the<a href="https://www.olympic.org/news/rio-2016" target="_blank"> Rio Olympics</a>. Users are insanely enthusiastic, organizing over 100+ Meetup groups around the globe. Ionic is currently <a href="https://github.com/search?p=5&q=stars%3A%3E1&s=stars&type=Repositories" target="_blank">#45 on the GitHub leaderboard</a> (~27,600 stars), with 30,000 questions on Stack Overflow, and a Slack room that never sleeps.