Building Mobile Apps With Ionic & Loopback
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The presentation discusses Ionic and LoopBack for mobile app development, emphasizing Ionic's minimal DOM manipulation and integration with AngularJS, as well as LoopBack's ease of use for creating APIs. It outlines the installation steps and highlights functionality supporting various databases. The document also mentions the importance of technology in reaching solutions rather than being the solution itself.
Building Mobile Apps With Ionic & Loopback
- 1. IONIC & LOOPBACK Presentation by: Chibuzor Obiora
- 2. IONIC • It touts minimal DOM manipulation, Zero jQuery and uses hardware to accelerate transitions • It utilises Angular JS for serious app development. • Native focused in that it is built on top of Cordova. Ionic is a front-end sdk for developing mobile apps
- 3. AN APP INTHREE STEPS 1. Install ionic and cordova command line tools. npm install -g cordova ionic 2. Create the app ionic start myApp tabs/blank/sidemenu 3. Run your application ionic platform add ios/android ionic emulate ios/android ionic build ios/android
- 4. LoopBack • Ease of use. Using the LoopBackYeoman generator • Provides a web UI to help explore your REST API. • Supports multiple to databases e.g. Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB Powerful node.js framework for creating APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources.
- 5. AN APP INTHREE STEPS 1. Install ionic and cordova command line tools. npm install -g strongloop 2. Create the app slc loopback 3. Run your application slc run
- 7. CAVEATS/NOTES • Symbolic links • ngCordova • Android • Emulators like genymotion ln -s /path-to-dir/GDDonorApp/client/lbclient/ www/lbclient
- 8. – S.O.T.I “Technology is how you get to the solution, it is not THE solution.”