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Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development

You're reading from   Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development Make use of Node.js to learn the development of a simple yet scalable cross-platform mobile application

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785280498
Length 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Setting Up Your Workspace FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring Persistence with MongoDB 3. Creating an API 4. Securing Your Backend 5. Real-Time Data and WebSockets 6. Introducing Ionic 7. Building User Interfaces 8. Making Our App Interactive 9. Accessing Native Phone Features 10. Working with APIs 11. Working with Security 12. Working with Real-Time Data 13. Building an Advanced Chat App 14. Creating an E-Commerce Application Using the Ionic Framework Index

Adding a new tab


In this project, we would like to add a new tab that highlights the developers of this application. This will inform the potential users of this app about how to get in touch with the developers to provide them with the necessary feedback to improve the app experience.

In order to achieve this, we'll need to perform the following four main steps:

  1. Create a new controller entry in controllers.js.

  2. Create a new tab controller called tab-about in HTML.

  3. Add a new tab entry in the tabs.html file.

  4. Consolidate our work in the app.js file and connect everything together.

Creating a new controller

Let's start with adding a controller for the new tab. Head over to controllers.js and add the following into it:

controller('AboutCtrl', function($scope) {})

Don't worry about the empty function for now. At the moment, our tab does not need any functionality apart from simply appearing.

Creating a view

Now that we have a controller, we need to implement the view for the new tab. The first order of business...

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