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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)

Introduction

Tracking and engaging users are key features necessary for your app to grow. That means you should be able to register and authenticate users. Once the users start using the app, you also need to segment the users so that you can customize their interactions. Then, you can send push notifications to encourage users to revisit the app.

There are two components that you need to use for your project, as follows:

  • Auth0: Auth0 is a cloud-based authentication service. The whole idea is that you delegate authentication of your application to Auth0. Auth0 supports many frameworks, including Ionic2+, and also supports many social providers for authentication such as Google and Facebook. On the top of that, they have excellent documentation.
  • OneSignal: OneSignal is a service that allows us to send the push notification to both iOS and Android. As a matter of fact, it supports...