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Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic

By : Gaurav Saini
Book Image

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)

Lazy Loading with Ionic 3

Lazy Loading is much-awaited feature which recently released with Ionic 3. Lazy Loading will improve our applications startup time, reduce the bundle size and removes the hassle of including same component path in every Class which eases the process of setting up Ionic routing. Let’s look into what changes are required and how your application will improve. Also, in Chapter 5, Authentication, Authorization, and Security the application demonstration will have lazy Loading implemented inside it.

Currently, lazy Loading component have some known bugs which Ionic team is actively working upon. Also, setting this will override DeepLinkConfig defined in IonicModule.forRoot. We will be introducing IonicPageModule in each component and new module.ts file in each page component. Make sure you actively follow Ionic blog and any new releases which can come up with further bugs fixes and new...