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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)

Summary

With the amount of services and tools that the Ionic team is working on you can see that Ionic as a community and product are both growing at a good pace. We have discussed all Ionic ecosystem services starting from Ionic Cloud services and then the tools available for quick prototyping. Combining all these services can be really helpful; auth and Ionic DB together gives you a lot more options for your application to do customizations.
Ionic services such as IonicDB are a really interesting addition. There have been plans that new tools for testing will be launched by Ionic anytime in the future. The next big thing will be deployment of the same codebase as a desktop application using Electron bringing platform continuity.
In Chapter 5, Authentication, Authorization, and Security we will be looking into some security aspects for our Ionic application. Starting from some common security practices to integrating...