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Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic

By : Gaurav Saini
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Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic

By: Gaurav Saini

Overview of this book

Ionic is an open source, front-end framework that allows you to develop hybrid mobile apps without any native-language hassle for each platform. It offers a library of mobile-optimized HTML, CSS, and JS components for building highly interactive mobile apps. This book will help you to develop a complete, professional and quality mobile application with Ionic Framework. You will start the journey by learning to configure, customize, and migrate Ionic 1x to 3x. Then, you will move on to Ionic 3 components and see how you can customize them according to your applications. You will also implement various native plugins and integrate them with Ionic and Ionic Cloud services to use them optimally in your application. By this time, you will be able to create a full-fledged e-commerce application. Next, you will master authorization, authentication, and security techniques in Ionic 3 to ensure that your application and data are secure. Further, you will integrate the backend services such as Firebase and the Cordova iBeacon plugin in your application. Lastly, you will be looking into Progressive Web Applications and its support with Ionic, with a demonstration of an offline-first application. By the end of the book, you will not only have built a professional, hybrid mobile application, but will also have ensured that your app is secure and performance driven.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Ionic Components

In this chapter, we will be going through various Ionic components and APIs that are necessary while building large applications. Ionic provides various built-in JavaScript components that we can utilize intelligently. There are many APIs provided by Ionic that we are not really aware of and here we will learn how we can efficiently use these in our application to increase the performance of the application and make it production ready.
We will also be starting here with an e-commerce application named vPlanet Commerce; I named this as one of my product ideas where we will be taking e-commerce stores to mobile. We will add progressive web app support to the application later in this book so that we have a complete package. To make this chapter interesting, I will integrate different Ionic components and APIs according to what an e-commerce app requires while building. This way you will have an entire...