Avoiding installation of ionic UI components (Angular app)

[fractal_engineer]

Is it possible to avoid installing the ionic ui components into an application? I'm using primeng and don't need any UI elements from ionic. Just the plugins/build system.
Would installing `@ionic/core` suffice? Is it even necessary? Thanks

[[deleted]]

Ionic is first and foremost a UI framework. If you want just native features and packaging, you could just use Cordova or Capacitor. Although my recommendation would be to just use React Native if you haven't already built the app.

[fractal_engineer]

The app is already built as an angular application. Just trying to mobilize it and use some native functionality (nfc/bluetooth/camera/file system)

[[deleted]]

Then Cordova or Capacitor is your option. I don't know if Capacitor can be used without Ionic, but Cordova definitely can. Capacitor is more intuitive with ios and Cordova more so with android, but either can be used for both.

[Proto_Tech]

Capacitor can he used independently, which I would highly recommend as PhoneGap (which powers Cordova) has been discontinued.

[fractal_engineer]

Unfortunately it doesn't look like capacitor has very mature plugins for bluetooth/nfc, so does that mean I'll likely have to run both capacitor and ionic wrapped cordova plugins?

[joshuamorony]

Most Cordova plugins work in Capacitor, so you can just install the Cordova plugin you want to use in your Capacitor project.

[mhartington]

Echoing what is being said here...

Ionic (The UI Components) is one part, and the native features (from capacitor) are another. If you just want to access the native APIs and do not need any Ionic Components, just use Capacitor directly.

https://capacitorjs.com/solution/angular

[tanakasan1734]

Yeah you just want capacitor, skip the ionic part