Managing the project

After creating the project, there are many things that we need to do to make sure that we have a working application as we need to prepare and later build the application in a usable state. We will cover these steps in this section.

Application preview

When the project is in development, building it in a native application and deploying it to the physical device can be time-consuming, especially if we do a lot of updates among the user tests. Preparing and building the whole application code that is required for wrapping a hybrid application in a native application takes time to execute.

PhoneGap has a really useful command that you will be using the most while developing the application. It basically creates a local Node.js web server with the live reload functionality that serves the application's content similar to a regular web page. The application works the same way as it does on the mobile device but in this case we are running it in the testing environment...