IONIC Boilerplate

A ionic boilerplate for starting new projects. This boilerplate will follow the best practices for angular and ionic development.

NOTE: I moved Unit tests from running through Rollup to Webpack with release 0.10.0. If you are looking to the old configuration see the rollup branch.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Roadmap
• Installation & Configuration
  • Quick Start
  • NPM scripts commands
  • Gitlab CI Configuration
• Tips
  • Optional Libraries
  • Git Workflow
  • Useful Links
  • Ionic & Cordova
  • Webstorm
  • Windows
• License

Features

• Ionic 3
• Es-Lodash instead of Lodash to reduce final bundle size.
• NVM to manage multiple active node.js versions
• Yarn for fast, reliable, and secure dependency management.
• BetterScripts for better NPM scripts.
• ENV variables from package.json injected automatically.
• Documentation with Typedoc.
• Continuous Integration with Gitlab CI see here for info.
  • Automatic apk only when pushing to release branch.
  • Automatic ipa through ionic package only when pushing to release branch.
  • A Docker image.
• Tests
  • Unit tests with Karma.
  • E2E tests with Protractor.
  • Screenshot reporter for Protractor.
  • Code coverage with Istanbul.
  • Gitlab badge see here for info
  • Headless Chrome support for testing
• Linting
  • SCSS Lint following Sass Guidelines.
  • TSlint with Codelyzer.
• GIT
  • Workflow with Commitizen.
  • Automatic changelog.
  • Automatic alignment of app version in config.xml from package.json through cordova hook.

Roadmap

• Automatic download .ipa in gitlab artificts.

Installation & Configuration

Quick Start

# Required dependecies (on Mac Os also install ios-sim and ios-deploy)
npm i -g cordova ionic yarn
gem install scss_lint

# Clone the repo --depth 1 removes all but one .git commit history
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcoturi/ionic2-boilerplate.git

# Change directory
cd ionic2-boilerplate

# Install project dependencies
yarn --ignore-engines
npm run post-install

# Launch ionic serve
npm run dev

TO RUN IONIC: Make sure you have Node version >= 6.X and NPM >= 3
TO RUN SCSS-LINT: Make sure you have Ruby >= 2

NPM scripts commands

Gitlab CI Configuration

• To get code coverage percentage badge use the following regexp: Lines\s*:\s*(\d*\.?\d+)% in Gitlab CI/CD pipelines.
• To get the automatic .ipa from ionic package first setup a ionic.io profile with certificates for ios. Secondly add the following Secret variables in Gitlab. N.B. Be sure to don't show Build results (edit project settings) for your repo otherwise those vars could be exposed.

Tips

Optional Libraries

If you want everything to just work nicely with rollup, use es2015 libraries like lodash-es instead of lodash. In the case of lodash-es try to do: import map from 'lodash-es/map' rather than import { map } from 'lodash-es'. See here for further info. To find examples on how to import 3rd party libs with ionic and rollup see here and here

• Error logging: Sentry
• Database: PouchDB or Ionic-storage. Don't use localstorage as it can be deleted by OS to free memory.
• Time and Dates: MomentJs
• NGRX pattern/library if you plan to make a big app.

Git Workflow

• Optionally you can use Git flow
• If you want to bump the changelog, run "npm run release"
• This repo has a mirror repo in gitlab for CI after every push on master you will get automatically all tests and lints run. To get .ipa and .apk build you need to push to the release git branch. The reason is to avoid unnecessary builds (free limit is 100/month) for ios.
• You should consider to write a shortcut in .bashrc for the following commands
  Workflow:
  

  git add .
  npm run commit // this will run tslint + scss lint + commit
  npm run push // this will run unit tests + push to master
  // now check on GITLAB if there are no errors, than if you want push your commits to the release branch to get automatic ipa and apk

Useful Links

• Search engine for find typescript typings
• Cordova-xcode 8
• Ionic package setup
• Useful Hooks

Ionic & Cordova

• Avoid the use of ionic state commands and also ionic plugin/platform. Use directly cordova prepare (or cordova plugin/platform). Also save your plugin/platform only inside config.xml, not package.json to avoid confusion. See this for further informations.

Webstorm

• Set code style for typescript:
  • {import} -> { import }
  • import from "lodash" -> import from 'lodash'
• Set typescript settings to be used with the version inside node_modules instead of the bundled one
• Don't activate typescript compiler.
• Enable tslint in settings
• Download scss lint plugin and enable it

Windows

• You should avoid Windows. I tried a lot of times and at the end found myself switching to a Mac VM or Hackintosh or Linux distro. The following tips are not resolutive but can help you set up a nice environment.
• Instead of windows terminal I used cmder.
• If you use Webstorm. Set terminal settings as follow -> "cmd.exe" /k ""%CMDER_ROOT%\vendor\init.bat""
• Remember to re-start webstorm every time you make a change to the terminal.
• npm install --global --production windows-build-tools //node-gyp fix
• Set webstorm to write with line endingds LF (mac os or unix)
• To avoid git warnings: git config core.autocrlf false

License

Copyright (c) 2016 Marco Turi
Source code is open source and released under the MIT license.