Creating first ionic 2 app

Creating first ionic 2 app

Ionic first started in 2013, ionic is updating from version 1 to 2 as angular is updating 1 to 2. At the time writing ionic 2 is in Alpha.

Setup

Install Nodejs on machine, then execute following command

npm i ionic@alpha

This will install ionic 2 on your machine.

Create first App

Run following command on your terminal/shell, this will create starter ionic 2 app on desire directory.

ionic start firstApp blank --v2

--v2 flag for creating ionic 2 app

blank (type of starter app) for blank app.

Build app

Run following command, adding android platform.

ionic platform add android

you can replaced ios for iphone and wp8 for windows phone 8 device instead android.