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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

Registering and authenticating users using Ionic Cloud


Ionic Cloud can provide all of the user management and authentication capabilities out of the box. The following providers are supported by Ionic Cloud:

  • E-mail/password

  • Custom authentication

  • 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. If you have your own authentication server where you maintain your own user database, you can still use the custom authentication of Ionic Cloud to create a custom token.

This chapter will try to simplify the authentication concept as much as possible. You will learn how to do the following things:

  • Register a new user

  • Log in and logging out a user

  • Change user profile data using custom fields

Observe the following screenshot of the app:

Getting ready

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