Installation and setup

As we are going through Ionic 3, most of the developers have previous experience of Ionic installation. We can install ionic via the NPM package; currently Ionic CLI v3 is in beta which has entirely changed how CLI works and now the default project that Ionic will create is based on Ionic 3:

    $ npm install -g ionic

It's recommended to use the 6x version for node and the 3x version of npm. This beta release supports both Ionic 1 and 2 projects. Now let's get started with a project:

// will create Ionic 3x project
$ ionic start wedding-planner sidemenu 
// will create Ionic 1x project
$ ionic start wedding-planner sidemenu --type ionic1
// move to projedct directory
  $ cd wedding-planner

  // run project with ionic serve
  $ ionic serve

Now the next steps will be to add specific platforms and plugins required in the application:

   // For adding specific platforms
$ ionic cordova:platform add android

// running application on real device
$ ionic cordova:run android

// running inside an emulator
$ ionic cordova:emulate android

Next, we will be looking at how we can get started with an Ionic 2 application code base. You have to understand how each file and folder is structured and how they work.