Getting Started with Ionic

This is a base repository for getting started with the Ionic framework.

The project will build a small interactive chat application using Firebase that will allow users to chat in real time.

Vagrant Setup

If you don't already, you should have Vagrant and Virtual Box installed.

Open a command prompt to the directory you cloned this repository to and type vagrant up to load the vagrant box for this project.

Then type vagrant ssh to load up a command prompt to the machine with the entire stack already installed.

Preview the Project

While ssh'd into your vagrant machine, go to the directory /vagrant/ChatApp and type ionic serve

Then, open a browser window to http://localhost:8100/ and this should show the Ionic project as you're working on it!

Things we are covering in this project

1. Angular JS Basics

• Routing
• Controllers
• Services

2. Basic Ionic Components
3. Installing an APK on an Android device

Challenges

1. Add validation so we don't send blank data to the server.
2. Add Emoji support

• http://www.emojione.com/developers

3. Make the app show a gravatar image if the name is an e-mail address

• Just check for something simple like the existence of @ and . in the name.

4. Alter the firebase service to store and retrieve a timestamp for messages