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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)

Integrating with Stripe for online payment

In this section, you will learn how to integrate with a real backend service for the payment process. Earning revenue is an important aspect of creating an app. While there are many other methods of collecting payment, Stripe is a common payment system and can integrate very well with Ionic. In addition, there is no need to provide a high level of security and compliance (that is, PCI) since you will not be storing the credit card information.

Your app will not process via a real payment method because you can use a public test key from Stripe. The app will ask for a few fields to create a token. Observe the following screenshot of the app:

If you touch the Pay button, it will take you to the next screen where you will get the payment token, as shown in the following screenshot:

Actually, there are additional steps for your backend...