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Learning Ionic

By : Arvind Ravulavaru
Book Image

Learning Ionic

By: Arvind Ravulavaru

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning Ionic
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Ionic project structure


So far, we have scaffolded a blank Ionic app and launched it in a browser. Now, we will walk through the scaffolded project structure.

To quickly remind you, we know that the Ionic sits inside the Cordova application. So before we go to the Ionic code, we will talk about the Cordova wrapper.

If you open the chapter2 example1 folder in your text editor, you should see the following folder structure at the root of the project:

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├── bower.json
├── config.xml
├── gulpfile.js
├── hooks
├── ionic.project
├── package.json
├── plugins
├── scss
└── www

Here is a quick explanation of each of the items:

  • bower.json: This consists of the dependencies loaded via Bower. In future, we will install other Bower packages to be used along with our app. All the information regarding the same will be available here.

  • config.xml: This file consists of all the meta information needed by Cordova while converting your Ionic app to a platform-specific installer. If you open config.xml, you...