From time to time you may need to add a proxy to your Ionic 2 project. It is actually really simple but many articles in the web still refer to the old Ionic 2 build using webpack. Since it is now gulp based and modularized you must use the ionic.config.json file in order to create a […]
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There are many modules to include Google Analytics into your Angular 2 project. But actually this overhead is not really required since a plain implementation is only a few lines of code. So you can spare extra modules. I highly recommend you to use Google Tag Manager in order to place the tracking information on […]
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Setting up Ionic 2 debugging is pretty easy. Above all make sure to have the “Phonegap/Cordova” Plugin installed when you want to start Ionic from Run. To do so go to Settings -> Plugins -> Install JetBrains plugin and search for “cordova”. Next step is to enable Run Cordova, go to Run -> Edit Configuration and […]
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Have you ever heard of ‘Mobile Native JavaScript‘? – No? It’s about writing native Apps with a native look & feel, but purely in JavaScript and the web technologies you love. The past We as developers had to make the hard decision, about writing a new app either native for each platforms or a hybrid […]
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Usually you inject Nav:NavController into your classes constructor to use it:

But if you are working in a service you will receive the following error:

If you want to show alerts from within a service you are required to use the NavController.  To do so simply create the private field nav with type NavController. […]
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Setting up Ionic 2 with angular2-translate is pretty simple. But since there were a lot of changes in the recent time and most of the code examples provided in other blogs is already outdated i decided to describe the latest working approach. Currently i’m using angular2rc.1. Since Anuglar has reached RC status there should be […]
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Playing around with Ionic 2 i came to the following issue. I had a component where i’d like to automatically set the focus of an element after the view is loaded completely. The approach is similar to the AngularJS/Ionic1 one. We create a directive. But instead of using jQuery or jQuery Lite to set the […]
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Our Angular 2 basic training adopt the successful structure of the AngularJS 1 course: Develop a fully functional demo application, step by step. Learn all the concepts by learning one and directly apply it. During developing the demo application, we neglect styling the app to fully concentrate on the core concepts of Angular 2: components, […]
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Recently i faced the challenge to create a cross platform application for desktop, mobile and browser. Since Angular 2 Material is not yet ready but a Angular 1 to Angular 2 migration would be a pain in the ass I decided to go with Ionic 2 as scaffold for all devices. And then, when Angular 2 […]
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Memory Leaks When it comes to unit testing in AngularJS there are many things that, developers like us can and will do wrong. The most crucial one is to create memory leaks in our unit tests, which mostly result either in a crash of the unit test runner (browser crash) or in creating a coherence/dependency between […]
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