Why Ionic 2 is going to rock your world
Panelists: Olivier Combe, PatrickJS, Josh Moont (fromAngularConnect)
Guests: Adam Bradley, Brandy Carney, Tim Lancina, Mike Hartington#main-content
Intro
Ionic 2 Beta
How is it going?
Any numbers you can give us for adoption rates so far?
https://www.npmjs.com/package/ionic-angular
Just switched from ionic-framework npm to ionic-angular
https://www.npmjs.com/package/ionic
Any notable apps published with Ionic 2?
Navigation
Create own router
How does it work on the web?
Work with deep linking?
Work with UI Router or Component Router in the future?
Jeff note: mention working with universal
Cool stuff Ionic team has been working on:
Ionic Creator
Started off with subset of functionality. How has it gottenbetter over the past 4 months?
Works much better
Cleaned up a lot of bugs
Added more components and customizations
Way better now than 4 months ago and more polished,stabilized
Who is the target audience for this?
Two target, drastically different
Developers to speed up boilerplate code dev and focus oncoding hard stuff
Designers/Marketers: Starting up an app to create aclickable prototype to hand off to devs
In the future, can you create simple apps and publishwithout opening an editor?
Ionic Playground
Really awesome, but when will it be available for 2.0?
Recent changes and Roadmap
Agnosticism Initiative
Why change name of package from ionic-framework toionic-angular?
Will there bean ionic-react?
Have you looked at Touchstone?
Angular 1 bindings?
How does Web Workers and Serverside Rendering fit in?
Why change webpack to browserify?
Has build complexity with webpack caused problems?
What other types of issues have people run into?
Ionic Market - brandy
How is the adoption?
Over 70k unique sessions/mo
Ionic View - Tim
What is the diff with TestFlight?
Do you plan on supporting Windows Phone?
What is the status of CodePush-like deployments?
How does that work?
Will Apple potentially crack down on this eventually?
Themes / SASS
Sweet spot for Ionic apps?
Apps that require heavy use of the camera?
Memory intensive apps?
How do you compare yourself with NativeScript? (Olivier)
Tips& Picks
Jeff Whelpley
(not a troll FYI, lots of Ionic love in this podcast) ReactNative Radio episode 6 - React Native vs Hybrid https://devchat.tv/react-native-radio/06-developing-with-react-native-vs-hybrid
Josh Moont
AngularConnect - just announced our workshops including anIonic workshop with Sani Yusuf called Building Mobile Apps With Ionic 2 - see www.angularconnect.comfor more info
Olivier Combe
Upgrading Your Application to Angular 2 with ng-upgrade: http://blog.rangle.io/upgrade-your-application-to-angular-2-with-ng-upgrade/
Universal Windows App + Angular 2 : https://github.com/preboot/angular2-universal-windows-app
Angular 2 RC milestone: https://github.com/angular/angular/milestones
Brandy
Windows phone support https://github.com/driftyco/ionic/blob/2.0/CHANGELOG.md#windows-mode
Mike
ionicworldwide.herokuapp.com
Adam
Help contribute to Ionic
Timionic-native