Learning Ionic - Second Edition

The Cordova whitelist plugin

Before we go ahead and start working with Ionic Native, we are going to spend a moment on one of the key Cordova plugins -- the whitelist plugin: https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-whitelist.

From the Cordova documentation on the whitelist plugin:

"Domain whitelisting is a security model that controls access to external domains over which your application has no control. Cordova provides a configurable security policy to define which external sites may be accessed."

So, if we want to have more control over how our app should behave when dealing with content from other sources, we should be working with the whitelist plugin. As you may have noticed, this plugin is already added to our Ionic app. If this plugin ...