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Getting Started with Ionic

You're reading from   Getting Started with Ionic Get up and running with developing effective Hybrid Mobile Apps with Ionic

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784390570
Length 168 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. All About Hybrid Mobile Apps and Ionic Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up the Environment the Right Way 3. Start Building Your First Ionic App 4. Navigation and Routing in an Ionic App 5. Accessorizing Your App with Ionic Components 6. Integrating App with Backend Services 7. Testing App on Real Devices 8. Working with Cordova Plugins – ngCordova 9. Future of Ionic Index

Ionic development environment

Ionic Framework is based on Apache Cordova, which takes care of build and plugin management. Apache Cordova CLI uses the NodeJS package manager called NPM for dependency management.

Installing NodeJS

NodeJS is a JavaScript-based server-side environment to build backend systems. NodeJS has an efficient package manager that takes care of installing and maintaining a central repository of packages, version management, and dependency management. NPM has become the default dependency manager for a lot of other frameworks apart from NodeJS. Ionic Framework also leveraged this successful package manager so we have to install it for Hybrid App development.

In order to install NodeJS, download the binary for the respective OS—Windows, Linux, or Mac OS from https://nodejs.org/download/.

On a Mac or Linux, you can use a package manager such as brew to install NodeJS:

$ brew install node

After the node installation is complete, please type in the following commands to...

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