Explain the difference between PhoneGap, Ionic and Cordova ?

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PhoneGap, Ionic, and Cordova are all frameworks for developing hybrid mobile applications.

PhoneGap is a mobile development framework that allows developers to build apps using web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Cordova is an open-source platform that provides a set of APIs for building mobile applications using web technologies.
Ionic is a UI framework built on top of Cordova and AngularJS, providing a library of pre-designed UI components and tools for building hybrid apps.
PhoneGap and Cordova are essentially the same, with PhoneGap being the commercial version of Cordova offered by Adobe.
Ionic combines the power of Cordova with its own set of UI components and tools to simplify the development process.

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PhoneGap is library which exposes native mobile Phone functionalities as javascript API. After overtaking PhoneGap, it's open source core was donated to apache software foundation with the cordova name. Ionic used cordova as for its core tools. Ionic offer all the native mobile phone funcationalities and provides code and structural scalability to javascript application by using angular JS