Summary
In this chapter, we started off by getting to know a bit of background about mobile applications in general. We learned how native mobile applications work, how they are built with native SDKs, and how each platform is built with a completely different set of tools without any resource sharing between them all. We then went ahead and discussed briefly about Apache Cordova and how it aimed to solve the problem of cross-platform development.
We then discussed exactly what Ionic means and what problems it aims to solve. We also got to discuss the CSS, JS, and Ionic CLI features of the Ionic framework lightly.
In the next chapter, we will be creating our very first Ionic application with the Ionic CLI, and we will create a nice to-do list style ...
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