Ionic Training Course

Where Ionic Fits

•    Comparing Ionic to native iOS and Android development
•    Single-code-base advantages
•    How modular Angular architecture underpins app development
•    Typical workflow and tool-chain development
•    The importance of scalability, maintainability and testability
•    Overview of submitting to app stores

Introducing Ionic

•    How Ionic and Cordova make web technologies work as a native app
•    Installing NodeJS, Ionic and Cordova
•    Creating projects for iOS, Android and other platforms
•    Following best practice for a particular platform

Binding to Data

•    Evaluating expressions
•    Binding to attributes, properties and styles
•    One-way and two-way binding

Ionic Components

•    Action sheets, Alerts and Badges
•    Interactive elements and forms
•    Menus, Tabs, Views and Navigation
•    Routing, Inputs, Outputs and custom events
•    Template syntax, repeaters and conditional content
•    Grids, Cards, Lists and Layout

Forms and Validation

•    Ionic form fields, date-pickers, selection options etc.
•    Validation feedback and user experience
•    Binding form field values to data models

Adding Native Functionality

•    Ionic Native
•    Using the native Camera, Geolocation, Maps, Calendar etc.
•    Promises and Observables
•    Device-specific issues
•    Running an App in the background
•    A few things Ionic cannot do

Accessing Device Features

•    Invoking device sensors and capabilities
•    Network detection
•    Practical memory and resource considerations

Working with Data

•    Making calls for external resources
•    Passing parameters out to servers
•    Persistent and transient storage
•    Managing state

Debugging Tools and Techniques

•    Runtime diagnostics
•    Serving to devices and emulators
•    Browser-based tools

Theming and Style Guides

•    Managing an app theme
•    Using SASS variables
•    Platform styles
•    Icons and Glyphs

The Command Line Interface (CLI)

•    Powerful CLI features
•    Creating a starter project with the CLI
•    Generating pages, components and providers from the command line

Testing

•    Karma and Protractor
•    Selenium testing server and Jasmine
•    Overview of approaches to testing

Production build

•    Development and Production modes
•    Configuring an automatic build chain
•    Optimizing for production