Ionic Framework is useful for building mobile apps like Android and iOS. This article will help you to install Node.js, Cordova and Ionic framework on your system.
Step 1 – Install Node.js
First, use the following commands to install NPM and Node.js on your system. In below commands, the first command will install some required packages on the system. The second command will add PPA for node.js to your system. After that update, your all attached PPA and last command will install Node.js and NPM on your system.
You can visit our tutorial to install latest Node.js on Ubuntu and debian systems.
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install nodejs
Step 2 – Install Cordova
Now use the following command to install Cordova on your system using npm command. It will install all other required node modules on your system.
sudo npm install -g cordova
Step 3 – Install Ionic Framework
Ionic provides and commands line utility for creating packages, build and start applications. Use NPM command to install Ionic framework on your system.
sudo npm install -g ionic
After completing the installation of the Ionic framework, use following command to check installed version.
ionic -v 3.20.0
Step 4 – Create Application with Ionic
Now, You need to create a new Cordova project on your computer using the following command.
ionic start HelloWorld blank
Now use one of the following commands to enable iOS or Android platform. iOS platform will work on MacOS only.
ionic platform add ios ionic platform add android
For more details visit http://ionicframework.com/docs/guide/installation.html
hi,
i get this
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir
‘/home/wesley/HelloWorld/node_modules/node-sass/.node-gyp’
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64
gyp ERR! command “/usr/bin/node” “/home/wesley/HelloWorld/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js” “rebuild”
“–verbose” “–libsass_ext=” “–libsass_cflags=” “–libsass_ldflags=” “–libsass_library=”
gyp ERR! cwd /home/wesley/HelloWorld/node_modules/node-sass
gyp ERR! node -v v8.9.3
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.7.0
gyp ERR! not ok
Build failed with error code: 1
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted
{“os”:”darwin”,”arch”:”any”} (current: {“os”:”linux”,”arch”:”x64″})
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: `node scripts/build.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /root/.npm/_logs/2018-06-12T17_18_50_981Z-debug.log
these commands are a little confusing to me, please explain some more for me , I’m very new to the coding world,I’m a student i started learning programming and web developing 2 months ago,short course thanks.
for debian x64 users, it is important to install 32 bit libraries as says here: https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO in the title “Installing Android SDK compat libraries”
Where to set environment variable for android sdk.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AndroidSDK
look the title “Modifying the PATH Environment Variable”