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Ionic 2 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Hoc Phan
Book Image

Ionic 2 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Hoc Phan

Overview of this book

Developing real-time apps is the need of the hour, and apps that deal with humongous amounts of user data and real-time information that needs to be updated frequently are in high demand. Currently, one of the most popular frameworks for this task is Ionic Framework, which is undergoing a major makeover. This book will get you started with Ionic and help you create Angular 2 components that interact with templates. From there, you’ll 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 the application to make it look pretty. You’ll learn to add in a local push notification in order to test the app. 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 as well as customizing your own. 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 (16 chapters)
Ionic 2 Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

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 $20 button, it will take you to the next screen where you will get the payment token, as shown in the following screenshot:

Tip

Actually, there are additional steps for your backend to call Stripe to authorize and process the transaction. However, it's not within the scope of this section. The...