Ionic App Base

A starting project for Ionic that supports using custom SCSS with bulk file importing (globbing), Compass, wired dependencies using wiredeps so you don't have to include everything and Jasmine for scaffolding and running tests.

Using this project

We recommend reading the Getting Started page in order to get familar with ionic and installing it's dependencies.

You'll need to run 3 commands to get started:

npm install - installs development dependencies

bower install - installs all application dependencies

ionic state restore - installs Cordova Plugins setup by default

Adding Platforms

You will still need to add platforms in the normal way. Using ionic platform add <ios|android>

##Changes from the original ionic-app-base

Renamed lib to vendor

Renaming lib to vendor was an idealogical change, in most robust applications there will be an internal library that shares common code, particularly if you are building applications that include common feature sets. Vendor provides a more coherent relationship with external dependencies.

Added Sass bulk imports

If you use any form of structured CSS methodology such as BEM or SMACSS you'll no doubt use several .scss files and folders. Including these files can become cumbersome and if you forget to update your imports you can run into a number of errors.

Remove splash screen spinner

Cordova applications show a loading spinner on the splash screen, we've added <preference name="ShowSplashScreenSpinner" value="false"/> to remove it by default.

Included Compass into the sass block for gulp

We like using Compass it includes a wide range of helpful mixins and functions.

Included Wiredep as part of the build process

Manually adding dependencies to your index.html file can become tedious, so automatically wiring them up based on your bower.json just makes sense and saves a lot of time.

We love tests

Testing is good, we love tests. So including scaffolding and a test runner is essential, which is why we've added Jasmine to the build process.