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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)

Viewing and debugging themes for a specific platform

One of the biggest challenges in developing an app is ensuring that it has the desired look and feel for each platform. Specifically, you want to write the code and theme once and have it just work. Another challenge is figuring out the workflow on a daily basis, from writing code and previewing it in the browser to deploying to a device for testing purposes. You want to minimize a lot of unnecessary steps. It's certainly difficult if you have to rebuild the app and test it independently for each mobile platform.

Ionic CLI provides seamless integration to improve your workflow to ensure that you can catch all the issues for each platform ahead of time. You can quickly view the app on various platforms in the same browser window. This feature is powerful because now you can make a side-by-side comparison for each screen...