Deploying apps to mobile devices
What good is building single-page apps with all kinds of cool functionality if you're only going to make it available as a web page? This recipe will take you through all the steps necessary to test and deploy your app to an iOS device.
Getting ready
You need an app to complete this recipe. We will be using the app created in the Creating a complete app with Iron Router recipe found earlier in this chapter. If you don't have your own app you would like to deploy, please complete that recipe first and then come back to this one to learn how to deploy your app.
How to do it…
There are two parts to deploying your application. The first is testing it on a device while using the server-side code that has already been deployed to a production URL. The second is to prepare an app build for deployment to the App Store.
First, let's set up our mobile app building environment. To deploy to an iOS device, you will need an Apple developer license, a machine running Mac OS...
