Ionic Tutorials

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Case Study: A Complex CouchDB/PouchDB Application in Ionic

6 min read

In this article, I am going to dive a little deeper into how the CouchDB/PouchDB integration is able to achieve the core goals of Elite Ionic

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High Performance Animations in Ionic

1 min read

In this video tutorial, we take a look at how animating different CSS properties can have a drastic impact on performance.

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Creating a Facebook Style Reaction Button in Ionic

3 min read

In this tutorial, we are going to create a simplified version of the Facebook reactions button in Ionic.

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What Is Stencil and How Will It Impact Ionic?

3 min read

If you would like a little more information about Stencil, I had the chance to ask Ionic's Justin Willis a few questions to help explain things a little.

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Learning Vue for Ionic/Angular Developers – Part 1

7 min read

In this series, we learn how to use the Vue framework to build Ionic applications.

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Advanced Guide to the Ionic Framework

3 min read

This article contains a list of curated articles for Ionic developers that want to start learning more advanced concepts.

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Learning Vue for Ionic/Angular Developers – Part 2

5 min read

In this tutorial, we are going to start by covering the absolute basics of routing/navigation in Vue, and then we are going to look at how to navigate through an Ionic application using Vue.

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Using Observables in Ionic 3.9.x and Angular 5

3 min read

In this article, we are going to take a look at one of the more significant changes in Angular 5 which is an update to RxJS and Observables.

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Building a Cryptocurrency Price Tracker PWA in Ionic

10 min read

In this tutorial series, we cover building a progressive web application with Ionic and hosting it using Firebase hosting.

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Integrating an Ionic Application with a NodeJS Backend

5 min read

In this tutorial, I am going to start by giving a very bare bones introduction to what a basic NodeJS server might look like

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Learning Vue for Ionic/Angular Developers – Part 3

4 min read

In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to create "services" or "providers" in Vue that pull in some data via an HTTP request.

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Communicating Between an Ionic Application and a NodeJS Backend

5 min read

In this tutorial, we are going to take a deeper look at how an Ionic application and a NodeJS server can communicate back and forth.

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Hosting an Ionic PWA with Firebase Hosting

4 min read

In this tutorial, we are going to walk through how to host an Ionic PWA using Firebase Hosting.

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Learning Vue for Ionic/Angular Developers – Part 4

4 min read

In this tutorial, we create a service for Vue that wraps localForage to handle saving data in the best storage mechanism available.

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Preparing a Progressive Web Application for Production

7 min read

In this tutorial, we will be taking the necessary steps to turn the Ionic application we have built into one that would be considered a progressive web application.

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Building a Time Locked Advent Calendar in Ionic

6 min read

We are going to build an advent calendar in Ionic, complete with animations for revealing each day.

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Learning Vue for Ionic/Angular Developers – Part 5

4 min read

In this tutorial, we are going to walk through how we can use Cordova to wrap our Ionic/Vue code into a native application.

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Adding CAPTCHA to Ionic with NodeJS Middleware

6 min read

In this tutorial, we will be investigating adding Google's reCAPTCHAto an Ionic application that is powered by a NodeJS backend.

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Live Reload Across Multiple Devices with Ionic DevApp

3 min read

In this article, we take a look at Ionic's new DevApp.

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Learning the Ionic 1.x Framework as a Sencha Touch Developer: Part 1

2 min read

This will be useful as a getting started guide in a general sense, but I will also be making comparisons to Sencha Touch along the way. This will allow you to understand any key differences between the frameworks and how they stack up against each other.

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Learning the Ionic 1.x Framework as a Sencha Touch Developer: Part 2

3 min read

Now we need to learn how to start using Ionic. As always, the best place to start is the documentation. Ionic's documentation is especially user friendly, and you can see at a glance all the different topics you should be focusing on.

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Learning the Ionic 1.x Framework as a Sencha Touch Developer: Part 3

7 min read

So, in this article I'm going to list the basic core concepts for AngularJS and Ionic I've learned as someone new to the frameworks.

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Learning the Ionic 1.x Framework as a Sencha Touch Developer: Part 4

3 min read

In this post I'll focus on going over how to use Cordova within an Ionic application and hopefully we'll wrap things up in the following post in this series.

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Learning the Ionic 1.x Framework as a Sencha Touch Developer: Part 5

7 min read

We will discuss how to build Ionic applications for both iOS and Android. I'll also provide a "mini analysis" of Sencha Touch vs Ionic.

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Organising Code in an Ionic 1.x Application for Beginners

3 min read

On top of actually learning how the framework works, you also need to make sure your code, files and folders stay well structured and easy to maintain. It's easy to skip over this stuff as a beginner and end up with a really messy set up that makes you cringe every time you look at it.