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Learning Ionic, Second Edition

You're reading from   Learning Ionic, Second Edition Hybrid mobile apps with HTML5, CSS3, and Angular

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466051
Length 378 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Arvind Ravulavaru Arvind Ravulavaru
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Preface 1. Angular - A Primer FREE CHAPTER 2. Welcome to Ionic 3. Ionic Components and Navigation 4. Ionic Decorators and Services 5. Ionic and SCSS 6. Ionic Native 7. Building the Riderr App 8. Ionic 2 Migration Guide 9. Testing an Ionic 2 App 10. Releasing the Ionic App 11. Ionic 3 Appendix

Why migration?

So far, in this book, we have gone through the process of building apps with Ionic 2, without the knowledge of Ionic 1. But as far as the real world goes, there are a few thousand apps already deployed with Ionic 1. Those apps can take advantage of the improved features of Ionic 2 to make the app experience better.

Migrating code in the world of software is a daunting task. In our case, the migration is even more complex because we are not just upgrading the libraries of Ionic 1 to Ionic 2 but upgrading the language itself on which these are written for example, ES5 to ES6 and TypeScript.

The new ecosystem for JavaScript apps primarily revolves around ES6, TypeScript, and Web Components. Adapting to these to take advantage of the latest technologies is what Angular 2 has done. Ionic 2 has also done this.

IMHO, with so many changes, migrating a fully functioning app from Ionic 1 to Ionic 2 should be...

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