Build Mobile Apps with Ionic 2 and Firebase: Hybrid Mobile App Development

✍ Scribed by Fu Cheng (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learn to build hybrid mobile apps using Ionic and Firebase. You'll build a Hacker News client app, which can view top stories in Hacker News, view comments of a story, add stories to favorites, etc.
This introductory guide covers the whole cycle of hybrid mobile apps development. It's organized around implementing different user stories. For each story, this book not only talks about how to implement it but also explains related Ionic and Firebase concepts in detail. Using Apache Cordova, developers can create a new type of mobile app—a hybrid mobile app.
Hybrid mobile apps actually run in an internal browser inside a wrapper created by Apache Cordova. With hybrid mobile apps, developers can have one single code base for different platforms. Developers also can use their existing web development skills.

The Ionic framework builds on top of Apache Cordova and provides out-of-box components which make developing hybrid mobile apps much easier. Ionic uses Angular as the JavaScript framework and has a nice default UI style with a similar look and feel to native apps. Firebase is a realtime database which can be accessed in web apps using JavaScript. With Build Mobile Apps with Ionic 2 and Firebase you'll discover that just need to develop front-end code, there's no need to manage any back-end code or servers.
What You'll Learn

• Create content-based Ionic mobile apps
  
• Discover the advanced features of the Ionic framework
  
• Use Firebase as a mobile app’s back-end storage
  
• Build, test, and continuously delivery Ionic mobile apps
  
• Publish and analyze Ionic mobile apps
  

Who This Book Is ForFront-end developers and mobile app developers

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Getting Started....Pages 1-17
Languages, Frameworks, Libraries, and Tools....Pages 19-45
Basic App Structure....Pages 47-55
List Stories....Pages 57-116
View Story....Pages 117-126
View Comments....Pages 127-138
User Management....Pages 139-175
Manage Favorites....Pages 177-193
Share Stories....Pages 195-201
Common Components....Pages 203-214
Advanced Topics....Pages 215-225
End-to-End Test and Build....Pages 227-237
Publish....Pages 239-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-252

✦ Subjects

Mobile Computing;Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters