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An Early Look at Capacitor (A New Native Bridge for Web Apps)

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In this article, we take a look at the Ionic team's new project "Capacitor" and how to use it.

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Ionic 2 First Look Series: Your First Ionic 2 App Explained

11 min read

Now that the alpha of Ionic 2 is officially released we are going to look at how Angular 2 syntax applies in an Ionic 2 application.

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Discover the Power of Directives: Bringing an Ionic App to Life — Part 2

3 min read

This week Hunter Leaman stopped by to write a tutorial on how he used directives to create a stock market application with price tickers that automatically update.

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Build a Todo App from Scratch with Ionic

11 min read

What I wanted to do in this tutorial was to come up with a concept for an application, and then build it from scratch using Ionic's "blank" template.

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Ionic 2: How to Create a Sliding Delete Button for Lists

4 min read

In this tutorial I'm going to show you how you can use Ionic 2 to add a simple delete button to your lists.

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How to Create a Data Model in Ionic 2

4 min read

In this tutorial we are going to walk through how to create a data model in Ionic 2, and talk about why you might want to do that over just manually defining your data.

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How to Convert an Ionic 1 Application to Ionic 2

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In this tutorial I'm going to walk through an example of taking an existing Ionic 1 application and converting it into an Ionic 2 application.

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How to Use Pipes to Manipulate Data in Ionic 2

5 min read

In this tutorial we are going to walk through how to build and use a pipe for filtering data in Ionic 2.

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Why I Released an Ionic 2 & Angular 2 Application

6 min read

Despite the reasons why you shouldn't use Ionic 2 to build production applications right now that I've listed above, I've gone ahead and done it anyway.

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Using Http to Fetch Remote Data from a Server in Ionic 2 & 3

7 min read

In this tutorial I'm going to show you how you can use the Http service in Ionic 2 to pull data into your own applications.

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A Guide to Styling an Ionic 2 Application

7 min read

In this tutorial I'm going to show you the different ways you can customise your Ionic 2 applications, and the theory behind theming in general.

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Creating a Sliding Introduction Component in Ionic 2 & 3

4 min read

In this tutorial I'll show you how you can build a sliding introduction component for yourself

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Syncing Data with PouchDB and Cloudant in Ionic 2

8 min read

In this tutorial we're going to cover how to set up PouchDB in an Ionic 2 application, how to store and retrieve data locally, and how to sync the local database with a remote database.

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Using Cordova Plugins in Ionic 2 with Ionic Native

5 min read

Now that we've covered that bit of theory, let's get into how to actually use Ionic Native (it's pretty easy).

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How to Create a Custom Loading Component in Ionic 2

2 min read

I'm going to show you how you can implement your own custom loading service in Ionic 2

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Boosting Scroll Performance in Ionic 2

4 min read

The basic idea is that we only create enough elements in the DOM to display the list data that is currently on screen, and we recycle those DOM elements.

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Integrating Ionic 2 & 3 with the Dropbox API – Part 1

10 min read

In this tutorial, we are going to create an Ionic 2 application that integrates with the Dropbox API. We are going to create an application that will return a

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Integrating Ionic 2 & 3 with the Dropbox API – Part 2

6 min read

In this part of the tutorial we are going to be using the Dropbox OAuth 2 flow to authenticate a user and retrieve their access token.

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Adding Background Geolocation to an Ionic 2 & 3 Application

5 min read

In this tutorial I am going to show you how you can enable Background Geolocation in your Ionic 2 applications.

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An In Depth Look at the Grid System in Ionic 2 & 3

4 min read

In this tutorial we are going to cover one specific component, which is the cornerstone for building complex layouts in Ionic 2 The Grid

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Ionic 2: TypeScript vs ECMAScript 6

5 min read

TypeScript and ECMAScript 6 are not really two different things battling it out, TypeScript is just an extension of the standard ECMAScript 6 syntax.

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Converting ECMAScript 6 to TypeScript in Ionic 2

4 min read

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to take some ES6 code and convert it to TypeScript

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Using Angular 2 without Ionic 2: Part 1

5 min read

In the first part of this tutorial series we are going to focus on getting up an running with Angular 2, "hello world" style.

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Building a Review App with Ionic 2, MongoDB & Node

7 min read

In this tutorial we will be creating a simple review application in Ionic 2 powered by the MEAN stack - MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.

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An Introduction to Lists in Ionic 2 & 3

8 min read

In this tutorial we are going to focus on going through the core concepts of how to use lists in Ionic 2