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Ionic Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Indermohan Singh
Book Image

Ionic Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Indermohan 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)

Creating a shared service to provide data to multiple pages

When you develop an app that involves a lot of pages and communication to the backend, you will need to have a way to communicate across pages and components. For example, you may have a service to request user data from the backend and store it in a common local service. Then, you will need to provide a way for the user to update their user data and see the update in real time. When the user navigates to different pages, the same information will be pulled and rendered too, without making multiple trips to the backend. This is a very common scenario that requires the use of the @Injectable decorator in Angular.

Observe the following screenshot of the app you will build:

The user can fill out the form and see updates on it in real time. Then, they can move to the next page (Go to Page 2) and see the following screenshot...