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Leverage your existing web development skills to learn the whole cycle of hybrid mobile app development. This edition is fully updated with the changes in Ionic 4, including Stencil, a new framework based on the web components standard. It explains Ionic and Firebase in detail, including how to create hybrid mobile apps using using React and Vue, and run those apps in an internal browser using a wrapper created by Apache Cordova.

Build Mobile Apps with Ionic 4 and Firebase shows you how to focus on developing front-end code, without needing to manage any back-end code or servers. You´ll learn in the context of building a Hacker News client app, which can view top stories in Hacker News, view comments of a story, and add stories to favorites.

Explore how Ionic 4 uses Angular as the JavaScript framework to easily develop apps using an interface similar to native apps, and how to access Firebase, a real-time database, in web apps using JavaScript.
What You´ll Learn

Create content-based Ionic mobile apps

Work with new Ionic 4 compnents like gesture, text, and keyboard controller

Manage your apps with RxJS & Redux
Who This Book Is For
Front-end developers and mobile app developers

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Build Mobile Apps with Ionic 4 and Firebase 2E

Chapter 1 : Getting Started

Chapter Goal: Basic introduction

Chapter 2 : Languages, frameworks, libraries and tools

Chapter Goal: Background knowledge

Chapter 3 : Web Components and Stencil

Chapter Goal: Introduce Web Components and Stencil

Chapter 4 : Basic app structure
Chapter Goal: Go through basic application structure

Chapter 5 : List stories

Chapter goal: Implement user story: list stories

Chapter 6 : View story

Chapter goal: Implement user story: view story

Chapter 7 : View comments

Chapter goal: Implement user story: view comments

Chapter 8 : User management

Chapter goal: Implement user management

Chapter 9 : Manage favorites

Chapter goal: Implement user story: manage favorites

Chapter 10 : Share stories

Chapter goal: Implement user story: share stories

Chapter 11 : Common components

Chapter goal: Introduce common components

Chapter 12 : Advanced topics

Chapter goal: Discuss some advanced topics

Chapter 13 : End-to-end test and build

Chapter goal: Introduce end-to-end test

Chapter 14: Publish

Chapter goal: Publish apps to app stores

Chapter 15 : App monitoring and analysis

Chapter goal: Monitor and analyse apps-

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Fu Cheng is a full-stack software developer living in Auckland, New Zealand with rich experience in applying best practices in real product development and strong problem solving skills. He is the author of the book Exploring Java 9: Build Modularized Applications in Java, which covers the new features of Java SE 9 and provides a deep dive of Java platform core features. He is also a regular contributor to IBM developerWorks China and InfoQ China, with more than 50 published technical articles covering various technical topics.

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