Developing the application

First, we will scaffold and set up the app.

Scaffolding and setting up the app

We will start off by scaffolding a tabs application. Run this:

ionic start -a "Ionic Chat App" -i app.ionic.chat ionic-chat-app tabs

Using the cd command, go to the ionic-chat-app folder and run this:

ionic server

To view the sample tabs app.

Before we proceed, we are going to install dependencies needed for this application via Bower. From the root of the project, run this:

bower install ngCordova ng-cordova-oauth firebase angularfire lato --save

The gist of what these bower components are used for is as follows:

• ngCordova: The ngCordova library.

• ng-cordova-oauth: At the time of writing, there is an issue with the ng-cordova-oauth module that is bundled with ngCordova, so we are installing it separately and using it. The issue I am facing now might have been fixed by the time you are executing this code.

• firebase: This is the firebase source.

• angularfire: This is the AngularFire source...