Learning Ionic - Second Edition

No Cordova

The start command is one of the simplest ways to scaffold a new Ionic application. In this book, we have used the start command to always create a new Cordova and Ionic project.

Also, Ionic can be used without Cordova as well.

To scaffold an Ionic project without Cordova, you need to run the start command with a -w flag or --no-cordova flag:

ionic start -a "My Mobile Web App" -i app.web.mymobile -w myMobileWebApp sidemenu

The generated project should look like:

. ├── bower.json ├── gulpfile.js ├── ionic.config.json ├── package.json ├── scss │   ├── ionic.app.scss ├── www     ├── css     ├── img     ├── index.html     ├── js     ├── lib     ├── manifest.json     ├── service-worker.js     ├── templates

Now, as usual, you can cd into the myMobileWebApp ...