Ionic was created by Max Lynch, Ben Sperry, and Adam Bradley of Drifty Co.
Apps can be built with these Web technologies and then distributed through native app stores to be installed on devices by leveraging Cordova. Built on top of AngularJS and Apache Cordova, Ionic provides tools and services for developing hybrid mobile apps using Web technologies like CSS, HTML5, and Sass. Ionic is a complete open-source SDK for hybrid mobile app development.
This article describes how to get ionic up and running on osx and android and ios emulators Overview What is Ionic?