Ionic Cookbook, 3rd Edition

Ionic is the preferred choice for JavaScript developers to develop real-time hybrid applications. This book will get you started with Ionic 3.9 and help you create Angular 5 components that interact with templates.

You will work with Ionic components and find out how to share data efficiently between them. You’ll discover how to make the best use of the REST API to handle back-end services and then move on to animating your application to make it look pretty. You then learn to add in a local push notification in order to test the app. Then you’ll work with Cordova to support native functionalities on both iOS and Android. From there, you’ll get to grips with using the default themes for each platform and customizing your own. We then take you through the advanced Ionic features like lazy loading, deep linking, localizing ionic apps etc. Finally, you’ll see how best to deploy your app to different platforms.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Creating Our First App with Ionic
Chapter 2. Adding Ionic Components
Chapter 3. Extending Ionic with Angular Building Blocks
Chapter 4. Validating Forms and Making HTTP Requests
Chapter 5. Adding Animation
Chapter 6. User Authentication and Push Notifications
Chapter 7. Supporting Device Functionalities Using Ionic Native
Chapter 8. Theming the App
Chapter 9. Advanced Topics
Chapter 10. Publishing the App for Different Platforms