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Learning Ionic

By : Ravulavaru

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Learning Ionic

4.4 (14)

By: Ravulavaru

Overview of this book

This book is intended for those who want to learn how to build hybrid mobile applications using Ionic. It is also ideal for people who want to explore theming for Ionic apps. Prior knowledge of AngularJS is essential to complete this book successfully.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Ionic – Powered by AngularJS

1. Ionic – Powered by AngularJS

Understanding the separation of concerns

AngularJS components

AngularJS directives

AngularJS services

AngularJS resources

Summary

2. Welcome to Ionic

2. Welcome to Ionic

Mobile Hybrid Architecture

What is Apache Cordova?

What is Ionic?

Software setup

The platform guide

Hello Ionic

The browser developer tools setup

The Ionic project structure

Scaffolding the tabs template

Scaffolding the side menu template

generator-ionic

Summary

3. Ionic CSS Components and Navigation

3. Ionic CSS Components and Navigation

Ionic CSS components

The Ionic router

Summary

4. Ionic and SCSS

4. Ionic and SCSS

What is Sass?

Setting up SCSS in our Ionic project

Working with Ionic SCSS

Understanding the Ionic SCSS setup

The SCSS workflow

Building a swatch

Summary

5. Ionic Directives and Services

5. Ionic Directives and Services

Ionic directives and services

The Ionic Platform service

Content

Ionic loading

The ion-list and ion-item directives

Gesture directives and services

Summary

6. Building a Bookstore App

6. Building a Bookstore App

An introduction to the Bookstore application

The Bookstore architecture

Setting up the server

Building the application

Summary

7. Cordova and ngCordova

7. Cordova and ngCordova

Setting up a platform-specific SDK

Testing the setup

Getting started with Cordova plugins

The Ionic plugin API

The Cordova whitelist plugin

ngCordova

Summary

8. Building a Messaging App

8. Building a Messaging App

The Ionic Chat app

The application architecture

Developing the application

Testing the application

Summary

9. Releasing the Ionic App

9. Releasing the Ionic App

Preparing the app for distribution

The PhoneGap service

Generating installers using the Cordova CLI

The Ionic package

Summary

A. Additional Topics and Tips

A. Additional Topics and Tips

Ionic CLI

Ionic Creator

Ionic.io apps

Ionic Push

Ionic Deploy

Ionic Vagrant box

Ionic Sublime Text plugins

Summary

Index

Index

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Setting up the server

Since setting up the server is not a critical part of this book or this example app, you have two ways to do it:

Consume an existing REST API, which I have built.
Fork the server code, set up DB and run the server locally.

For option 1, you can check out the docs (https://ionic-book-store.herokuapp.com/) on readily available REST API end points and how to consume them.

For option 2, we will carry out the following operations:

Download and unzip the server code from: https://github.com/arvindr21. If you are familiar with Node.js, this is a typical Express application that has JWT added to it.

For the database, you can either use your local instance of MongoDB or you can get a free MongoLab (https://mongolab.com/) account and use it. Or you can use my MongoLab URL for this. Do note that other people are also using this URL; so kindly be sensible about it.

Once you have decided on the connection, you need to open server/db/connection.js and update the connection string on line...

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