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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

Testing using Ngrok


We have learned a lot about remote debugging but there is a problem such as hosting your Ionic App to a public location where any device on the Internet can access it. Also, sometimes you have to integrate your Ionic App to some local APIs and then test it on an actual device.

It would be very tedious and cumbersome to upload your backend and Ionic App to a public-facing server every time you want to test some functionality. Ngrok is an excellent tool that enables you to expose your local host server on any port to the Internet world using a public URL.

Ngrok acts as a secure tunnel between your local machine and a public URL, which people can access on any device. You can use this public URL in the methods given previously in this chapter to remotely debug your Ionic App.

Ngrok is very easy to use, you have to download it from the Internet. It will be downloaded as an archive, unzip it, and save it. You can also install using the npm command, npm install -g ngrok. Now open...