Creating our first application

Creating a new project with Ionic is actually a very pain-free experience with the Ionic CLI. There are different ways to create a new Ionic project but the easiest and more standard technique is to use the Ionic templates. This is by far the easiest way, and it let us use any of the three standard templates provided by Ionic.

These templates include:

• The blank template: This creates a new project with some boilerplate code to help you get set up with a blank application
• The tabs template: This is the same as the first but instead of a blank application, you get an application with a tabbed design
• The side menu template: This creates a new application with a side menu design and some boilerplate

We will be using each of these in this book at some point of time. For now, we are going to start with the first and create a brand new Ionic project using the blank template. Before we move on, let's have a look at the command that the Ionic CLI uses to create a...