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Ionic Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Singh
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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)

Introduction

Most of Ionic's out-of-the-box features are actually prebuilt components. In this section, you will learn how to create your own custom component using the HTML template, which contains Ionic components as well.

Components actually define Angular. A component is no more than just a class with self-describing features. For example, <ul> is a component that you are already familiar with. Previously, you used various Ionic components, such as <ion-list> and <ion-item>. A component is a decorator (that is, @Component) to add metadata to a class to describe the following:

  • selector: This is the name that is to be used in the DOM (for example,
    <my-component>)
  • template or templateUrl: This refers to the way the component is rendered
  • directives: This refers to a list of directive dependencies you plan to use inside
    the component
  • providers: This...