theanam / docker-old-ionic

a docker image to build and run ionic 1 Projects

Docker Image for testing and building Ionic 1 Projects

Ionic 1 isn't the default version of ionic anymore and getting ionic 1 projects working on ionic CLI 2/3 is tough. The old CLI also requires older version of nodejs. This docker image can help you out. This image contains nodejs 6.14 , ionic 1 and cordova 6.

Originally forked from : https://github.com/bmedy/ionic-android

You can use it in these following two ways depending on your knowledge on docker.

If you don't know / Don't want to know about docker :

Download and install docker from http://docker.io

Open up the command line and navigate to the project folder and then you can run these commands:

# To start the development server:
docker run --rm -it -v "$PWD:/data" -p 8100:8100 -p 35729:35729 theanam/old-ionic-build

# To build APK 
docker run --rm -it -v "$PWD:/data" -v "$PWD/.gradle:/root/.gradle" -v "$PWD/.android:/root/.android" theanam/old-ionic-build build android

# To enter the shell of the build machine and manually run commands run this command :
docker run --rm -it -v "$PWD:/data" -v "$PWD/.gradle:/root/.gradle" -v "$PWD/.android:/root/.android"  -p 8100:8100 -p 35729:35729 --entrypoint /bin/bash theanam/old-ionic-build

The command will take a long time for the first time you run it, because it will download the docker image, But after the first time, it will work really fast in every project on that computer.

To ease up things more, you can add this as alias in your .bashrc file

alias old-ionic='docker run --rm -it -v "$PWD:/data" -v "$PWD/.gradle:/root/.gradle" -v "$PWD/.android:/root/.android" -p 8100:8100 -p 35729:35729 theanam/old-ionic-build'

# You can add an additional alias if you want to access the shell of the container and do things by yourself: 

alias old-ionic-here='docker run --rm -it -v "$PWD:/data" -v "$PWD/.gradle:/root/.gradle" -v "$PWD/.android:/root/.android" -p 8100:8100 -p 35729:35729 --entrypoint /bin/bash theanam/old-ionic-build'

Then you can access the command like ionic cli:

# For the dev server
old-ionic serve
# For building 
old-ionic build android
# For release  build
old-ionic build --release android

#...and so on

If you know docker :

You can build the image manually from the docker file with this command :

docker build -t theanam/old-ionic-build .

make sure to run it in the folder with the Dockerfile and tools folder.

Known issues/Facts:

• Build by default downloads gradle, maven each time, if you have .gradle volume added, only the first build will be slow
• When using ionic serve: please select the ip adddress instead of localhost when prompted. If you select localhost, you won't be able to access it.
• When using serve: the application can be accessed from the default port 8100 , so http://localhost:8100 should work fine (if you are not running anything on the same port in the host machine)
• Make sure to add .gradle and .android folders in your project's .gitignore file.

If you want to know more about the image:

Please visit the work of medy belmokhtar. This image was the original version it was forked from. This repository contains more information about development.