Before getting started with Cordova, we must install the Cordova library. Cordova can be installed as a Node package.

Open a terminal window and install the Node package with the following code:

npm install -g cordova

This will install the Cordova package into Node's global space and allows us to use the Cordova command-line utilities to create and manage our mobile application.

Once Cordova has been installed, we can use the cordova command-line tool to create a mobile application.

At a terminal window, perform the following steps:

Issuing the cordova create command will create a simple folder structure and Cordova...