The development tools included with Chrome are essentially a built in web development IDE. There are some great features, especially for mobile development:
However, a hurdle
In iOS 8, Apple introduced WKWebView as a replacement for the aging UIWebView. NSHipster has a great write-up of all of the changes, summarized as follows:
Boasting responsive 60fps scrolling, built-in gestures, streamlined communication between app and webpage, and the same JavaScript engine as Safari, WKWebView is one of the
The Cordova dialog plugin (cordova-plugin-dialogs) exposes an API for alert, confirm and prompt dialogs. Unfortunately it does not yet have support for masked inputs (eg passwords) or multiple text entry fields.
I created a simple plugin to handle a few use cases involving prompting the user for passwords:
At work, we've recently begun integrating Yozio's mobile tracking and deep linking SDK into our apps. While Yozio offers an SDK for both iOS and Android, they do not have one for Cordova.
I put together a simple Cordova plugin which takes care of integrating Yozio's native SDKs and wrapping
An example project illustrating how to use TypeScript in harmony with Ionic and Angular for mobile development.
More than just a simple "hello world," this starter project shows how to structure an application using strongly-typed classes for your controllers (includes a BaseController and BaseDialogController), strongly-typed view models, and strongly-typed services,