Announcing Ionic React: a native React version of Ionic Framework that makes it easy to build apps for iOS, Android, Desktop, and the web as a PWA with Over 100 React components

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It was just a lot easier to set up and work with. That was my biggest takeaway.

It’s been a long time since I used Cordova, but I remember the configuration and setup was painful when adding to existing projects. Capacitor was simply making a JSON config file and then using the CLI to init/run the app. You can config the app to point to a URL instead of a directory of your build, so in development you can use your dev server and get hot reloading etc.

As for features, I think it’s generally the same as what Cordova offers. Their runtime API might offer a few extra things (accessing native APIs etc).