Ionic 2

Ionic 2 is the next generation of Ionic, the open-source mobile app development SDK that makes it easy to build top quality mobile apps with web technologies.

Ionic 2 is based on the new 2.x version of AngularJS, and comes with many significant performance, usability, and feature improvements.

Current Angular 2 known issues:

• Angular 2 is still in alpha and is not production ready
• Angular team has first focused on developing what the core of Angular 2 "is"
• Filesize and start-up times have not been optimized in Ionic's developer preview yet
• Once Angular 2 reaches beta there will be significant improvements to Ionic's current state

CSS Attribute Selectors:

• Simple
• Smaller markup
• Easier to read and understand
• Not an issue for today's mobile browsers
• No performance impacts have been found

Starter Project

https://github.com/driftyco/ionic2-starter

Building & Running

1. npm install
2. gulp watch
3. Go to http://localhost:8000/e2e/
4. Stay cool