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Ionic Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Singh
Book Image

Ionic Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Singh

Overview of this book

Ionic is the preferred choice for JavaScript developers to develop real-time hybrid applications. This book will get you started with Ionic 3.9 and help you create Angular 5 components that interact with templates. You will work with Ionic components and find out how to share data efficiently between them. You'll discover how to make the best use of the REST API to handle back-end services and then move on to animating your application to make it look pretty. You then learn to add in a local push notification in order to test the app. Then you'll work with Cordova to support native functionalities on both iOS and Android. From there, you'll get to grips with using the default themes for each platform and customizing your own. We then take you through the advanced Ionic features like lazy loading, deep linking, localizing ionic apps etc. Finally, you'll see how best to deploy your app to different platforms. This book will solve all your Ionic-related issues through dedicated recipes that will help you get the best out of Ionic.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Using the Ionic grid to create a complex UI

Since this chapter is about Ionic components, I will mention that one of my favorite components is the Ionic grid—a really useful component to lay out your application. Based on Flexbox, it is very similar to Bootstrap's grid. The documentation on the Ionic grid says:

"The grid is composed of three units—a grid, row(s) and column(s). Columns will expand to fill their row and will resize to fit additional columns. It is based on a 12 column layout with different breakpoints based on the screen size. The number of columns and breakpoints can be fully customized using Sass."

We will create a complex UI structure with very minimal code. The app will look like the following image:

Getting ready

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