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Ionic Framework By Example

By : Sani Yusuf
Book Image

Ionic Framework By Example

By: Sani Yusuf

Overview of this book

Change doesn’t have to be challenging. Sometimes it can be simple – sometimes it just makes sense. With Ionic, mobile development has never been so simple, so elegant and obvious. By helping developers to harness AngularJS and HTML5 for mobile development, it’s the perfect framework for anyone obsessed with performance, and anyone that understands just how important a great user experience really is. This book shows you how to get started with Ionic framework immediately. But it doesn’t just give you instructions and then expect you to follow them. Instead it demonstrates what Ionic is capable of through three practical projects you can follow and build yourself. From a basic to-do list app, a London tourist app, to a complete social media app, all three projects have been designed to help you learn Ionic at its very best. From setting up your project to developing on both the server side and front end, and best practices for testing and debugging your projects, you’ll quickly become a better mobile developer, delivering high performance mobile apps that look awesome. Ionic Framework by Example is for people who don’t want to learn now, build later – it’s for people who want to learn and build at the same time – so they can meet today’s mobile development challenges head on and deliver better products than anyone else.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Ionic SCSS overview


To have an overview of the SCSS structure of Ionic, we are going to create a brand new application using the Ionic blank template. We are going to call this application custom-app. The following is the command to create this new application. Fire up a terminal window on your computer and CD into a directory of your choice and run the following command:

ionic start custom-app blank

After you have created your new custom-app application, open this new project in your favorite IDE to have an overview of the folder structure. You should see something close to what we have in the following screenshot:

There are two folders that you should pay close attention to. The first folder is the scss folder found in the root directory of the project. This folder has a file called ionic.app.scss within it; we will take a look at this in more detail. The following is a screenshot of what this folder looks like:

The second folder is also titled scss, but this folder can be found by navigating...