Capacitor is a cross-platform app runtime that makes it easy to build web apps that run natively on iOS, Android, Electron, and the web. Capacitor is a spiritual successor to Apache Cordova and Adobe PhoneGap, with inspiration from other popular cross-platform tools like React Native and Turbolinks, but focused entirely on enabling modern web apps to run on all major platforms with ease. Capacitor has backwards-compatible support for many existing Cordova plugins.
With Ionic Capacitor, you create the app, without using any cordova imports, not even cordova.js, instead Capacitor’s own native plugin repository imported as @capacitor/core. Capacitor can also be used without the Ionic framework and it’s backward compatible with Cordova.
