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Your First Ionic App

Explore how to set up your development environment and create your first Ionic app using Angular. Understand the use of the Ionic CLI and App Wizard to initialize a side-menu project and launch it for testing. This lesson establishes a foundation for building hybrid mobile apps.

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Setting up the system

One of the things I like to do in my home directory is have a folder called “git.” You can call it anything you want: “projects,” “myprojects,” “ionic,” it is entirely up to you!

Always ensure that you have the latest tooling installed before starting an Ionic project. You will find out why later in this lesson. To check for available updates, enter the following command inside the command terminal of your choice:

npm install -g @ionic/cli@latest
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