This document provides an overview of the Ionic Framework, including its history, features, benefits, supported platforms and performance. Ionic is an open source framework for building hybrid mobile apps with web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It uses AngularJS and Apache Cordova to provide native app functionality and allows developers to build apps for iOS, Android and other platforms from a single codebase. Some advantages include one codebase for multiple platforms, use of web development skills and Angular framework, while disadvantages include lower performance compared to truly native apps.