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Getting Started with Ionic

By : Rahat Khanna
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Getting Started with Ionic

By: Rahat Khanna

Overview of this book

Hybrid Apps are a promising choice in mobile app development to achieve cost effectiveness and rapid development. However, they were not preferred over native apps until few years back due to a poor performance and bad user experience, but everything has changed with the release of Ionic. It has evolved as the most popular choice for Hybrid Mobile App development as it tends to match the native experience and provides robust components/tools to build apps. Getting Started with Ionic equips any web developer with the basic knowledge needed to use modern web technologies to build amazing hybrid mobile apps using Ionic. This fast-paced, practical book explains all the important concepts of AngularJS and Cordova Framework required to develop apps, then gives you a brief introduction to hybrid mobile applications. It will guide you through setting up the environment to develop mobile apps, and through the multiple options and features available in Ionic so you can use them in your mobile apps. Features such as the Side Menu, Tabs, Touch Interactions, and native features such as Bar Code, Camera, and Geolocations are all covered.. Finally, we’ll show you how to use Cordova plugins and publish your apps.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with Ionic
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Popular issues faced and solutions


The development environment set up for Ionic Hybrid App development is a lengthy and cumbersome process. It is evident that you may face some issues in installing and setting up all these systems. This section mentions the most common and popular issues faced along with their solutions so that you do not get stuck somewhere:

  • Permission issue [Mac or Linux]: A lot of the time, the user you are logged in as does not have permission to alter files and directories while creating projects. This problem can occur in npm install commands and Ionic start commands.

    • Solution: Use a sudo keyword before any command to run in privileged mode.

  • Unable to find npm global modules: If you have installed a global npm package using -g flag but are unable to use it, you may need to add the npm directory to your path in order to invoke globally installed modules.

    • Solution: Add the npm directory location to your path. On Windows, npm can usually be found at C:\Users\username...