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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)

Retrieving data via a mocked API using a static JSON file

As a frontend and app developer, you are often working with a team where someone else is responsible for the backend APIs. However, it's not always possible to have the backend available when you are developing the frontend. You have to simulate the backend in scenarios where the final backend APIs are not ready.

In this recipe, you will learn how to call a REST API using the HttpClient service. The API endpoint will be just a static JSON located on your local machine. You will also learn how to leverage placeholder images to meet design requirements. The app will show a list of image feeds and a description, as shown in the following screenshot:

Getting ready

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