jasheal / ion-starter

Starter for Ionic Framework that follows established angular best practices.

Ion Starter

Starter template for Ionic Framework based on best angular practices for ease of maintenance and scale.

Why should I use this?

If you are building smaller apps or experiments then the default ionic structure will work perfectly fine. This starter project lays down best practice patterns for structuring your apps with scaling & ease of maintenance in mind yet maintaing the simplicity of the default structure. It is encouraged that you adapt ion-starter to your own needs for you, your team and apps.

Components

Components are considered the building blocks of your app and thus the root directory app is where all the working files for your app live. Using gulp and watchers a www folder is created where the entire app is minnified and the .tpl templates are put into angular's $templateCache.

Getting started

Most likely if you are reading this you already have Node/IO installed. You should also install bower, gulp and ionic globally. Run all or some of the following line commands from the main root directory.

~$ npm install -g bower gulp ionic-cli
~$ npm install

When all the node modules are happy we can pull down the bower dependencies

~$ bower install

Build the app

~$ gulp build

Open a new terminal tab and run

~$ gulp watch

Start writing code