First, we will scaffold and set up the app.
We will start off by scaffolding a tabs application. Run this:
ionic start -a "Ionic Chat App" -i app.ionic.chat ionic-chat-app tabs
Using the cd command, go to the ionic-chat-app folder and run this:
ionic server
To view the sample tabs app.
Before we proceed, we are going to install dependencies needed for this application via Bower. From the root of the project, run this:
bower install ngCordova ng-cordova-oauth firebase angularfire lato --save
The gist of what these bower components are used for is as follows: