What's the difference between Phonegap and Ionic?

Question

JavaScript

What's the difference between Phonegap and Ionic and which is better?

Answer 1

phonegap is a trademark of Adobe, it's a build framework and a bunch of other things.
cordova - directly the name of the framework after Adobe gave it to open source, the main essence of which is the interaction of native code and webview, and in general it is a customized webview and internal infrastructure for plugins, etc. Plugins are native code that provide bindings for JS and forward it to a webview via an API provided by Cordova. Cordova can't do anything else out of the box. webview only. There is also cordova-cli - console tools for generating / building / project management.
Ionic is a UI framework. That is, what is spinning inside the webview is done based on it.
Conclusion is a completely different thing. You can use ionic separately, phonegap separately, together... whatever you want...