It’s quite easy to start unit testing your Ionic 2 app, follow along with this simple guide for an easy and reusable unit testing configuration.

This tutorials really just extends this article on showing and hiding the menu. Here we go one step further and start with a ‘Blank’ layout, adding just two buttons to let the user launch into either a tab or menu layout. A “back to base” button is added to to each child layout for quick navigation back […]

Angular 1 had a concept of http inteceptors for handling things like placing a token on the headers, responding to auth errors and redirecting, responding to all other errors, handling loading spinners, the list goes on. In Angular 2 that is no longer a thing, instead we simply extend the http class.

Need multiple layouts within your app? Tabs, no tabs, menu, no menu, all in one project? It can be done! In this case we keep it simple and simply have two layouts, one that has a menu and header bar (the core of the app), and one with no menu an no header (a login screen).

Need to hit different urls in production than in dev? It only takes a couple small tweaks to make that happen, and once it’s in place swapping variables is as simple as setting Ionic’s –prod flag, or setting NODE_ENV instead if you need lots of environments!

Have you ever wondered by your notifications weren’t working in iOS 10, or why they showed a bell icon or a solid square on Android?  If so your answers are here.

Skip my rambly intro and go right to the solution Intro I just ran into an issue with the Cordova In App Browser plugin today. A client wanted to of course keep the user within their “app experience” while still showing external links, so of course I installed and used the cordova in app browser […]

Hey CodeDayers, this time my workshop is on voice driven web apps.  This might sound complicated, but thanks to Google’s speech recognition and voice synthesis software it’s actually really easy!  We’ll be building a knock knock joke app that both talks and listens for your response.  Check it out here: knock knock app You will need […]

Add the ability to react to gestures to any element in the Ionic 2 beta. Cover long hold (press) and double tap specifically, but any gesture supported by Hammerjs works!

As a Java developer, I wanted something in Node that worked similarly to Spring Security. A lot of research and experimentation went in to creating the simplest secured API I could. This is the result, an API written in Express that connects to a MySQL database with Bookshelf, and is secured with Passport’s JWT strategy.