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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

I would personally say that PWAs support for Ionic and discussing this topic in this last chapter is the best approach to wrap up our exciting journey. You have already understood now the power of a PWA, and which you can extend to your normal web applications also. Also, we can't say here that PWA will replace native applications as there are low-level APIs that you only have while you are building your application with Cordova and using Cordova plugins.

From recent blog posts from the Ionic team, it looks like we will be having desktop support with electron coming really soon. I would recommend every user or developer to the subscribe to Ionic blog, which is the best way to be up to date about what's going on with Ionic. I have tried my very best to make sure that the content of every chapter is up to date, but you can see how actively the project is growing, so make sure that you put the effort...