Building the application

Now that we have our server set up and have an idea as to what we are going to build, let's start building it. We are going to perform the following steps, for us to easily build the app:

1. Scaffold the side menu template.

2. Refactor the template.

3. Build the authentication, local storage and REST API Factories.

4. Create controllers for each route and integrate them with the corresponding Factories.

5. Create templates and integrate with the Controller data.

Step 1 – Scaffolding the side menu template

The first thing we are going to do is scaffold a side menu template. Create a folder named chapter6. Open a terminal/prompt inside the chapter6 folder and run this:

ionic start -a "Ionic Book Store" -i app.bookstore.ionic book-store sidemenu

This will scaffold the side menu application. We will not be using theming in our Bookstore app, so there will be no SCSS setup.

Step 2 – Refactoring the template

In all the examples we have built so far, we have created components from scratch. But...