The Ionic CLI is your go-to tool for developing Ionic apps.
Ionic CLI is a great tool when it comes to avoid writing a lot of boilerlpate code. It generates pages, services, can run or emulate your Ionic application with and generate needed resources for the mobile application such as splash screen.
This is a quick reference into Ionic CLI.
You can install it with npm:
https://gist.github.com/fec1948fddb8c5ce80353ce6c5ccbae6
To check if it has installed correctly, in your terminal window, type:
https://gist.github.com/873eb984176bf026453b1896a3235527
To start with a new mobile application, Ionic framework provides different set of ready-to-use templates:
https://gist.github.com/fc3ff85554933c7935085488d49f9a57
For creating a new project:
https://gist.github.com/e24650203839d57f6b995b115a72ca84
With update to Ionic 3, no more adding tages such as --v2 after the template name in the above command. By default, Ionic app generated will be of version 2/3. To generate an Ionic app of version 1 (with good ol' Angularjs):
https://gist.github.com/f69c11be0b1964f26193508b6f82a71b
Once you cd into your project’s directory, serve your app on your local machine with serve:
https://gist.github.com/f195a940977ca571200207452bf727f9
To serve on a different port:
https://gist.github.com/77da56250a29001e595290d65aad771c
Use –-lab tag to see your app side by side on multiple platforms (such as iOS, Android and Windows Mobile):
https://gist.github.com/acb7190dff1c80502284bd81b2e8132a
To serve without live reload:
https://gist.github.com/57735a85eb3389117fb86cd324991be6
To generate a new page:
https://gist.github.com/40b1da7118fcdaeb94270c4cb00ba802
To generate a provider/service:
https://gist.github.com/e65ba1c90a53f4c6a17202d802a5558f
Know them all- List the available generators:
https://gist.github.com/0c05514d062f348df5c7aa17bcf5851b
To generate the app icon and splash screen with resources:
https://gist.github.com/69ffb34c6a71549bde63d53704ac1f9d
Or, just the splash screen:
https://gist.github.com/740e4c296e4c5c218dc11238f2188c0d
Now, generate resources for a specific platform:
https://gist.github.com/faa19273da3e095fa5b9b37c1e9e7cdd
To add a target mobile platform for the app to use:
https://gist.github.com/d959edf7b00535f3cb36683863dd1a79
To start an emulator:
https://gist.github.com/011ba4537f988dd127baf468cb8f5359
Emulate with livereload:
https://gist.github.com/47479216e79002108068e623bf15611d
Let's say, I have an iOS device connected, so to run the app on that device:
https://gist.github.com/06f681bf70eecc1d5ad19bf6d3e7d6a9
Producion check:
https://gist.github.com/cbfaed834002df4e12fa39e3e8dae0b9
Another advantage of using Ionic CLI tool is that it initialises a git repository when creating an Ionic project using the ionic start command from the terminal with an initial commit already. You can verify that by running: