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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)

Registering and authenticating users using Auth0

Auth0 can provide all of the user management and authentication capabilities out of the box. There are lots of providers supported by Auth0. Following are some famous providers that are supported by Auth0:

  • Email/password
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • GitHub

Depending on the app, you may not need to use all of these authentication methods. For example, it would make more sense to use a LinkedIn authentication for an app focusing on a working professional to narrow down the audiences who fit the user profile of the app.

In this chapter, we will try to simplify the authentication concept as much as possible. You will learn how to do the following things:

  • Registering a new user
  • Logging in and logging out a user
  • Showing a user's profile information
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