Create a Ionic 4 application - Part 1

Now that our backend is ready and live, it's time to create our Ionic 4 application.
I assume that if you are reading this tutorial, you already know why using IONIC for building application is better than others frameworks (such as React 😉) but to resume:

• Easy to learn and use
• Based on web standard technologies : HTML5, CSS, Javascript
• Great performances
• Generate iOS application, Android application and Progressive web app from one same code

Ok so let's begin. First we need a new directory (i will call it Application) inside of which we will generate the Ionic application.
I will assume that you have already setup/install your machine to do Ionic developmennt. If not please refer to Ionic documentation.
Inside our Application directory, in a terminal launch the following command:

ionic start bikeapplication tabs --cordova

bikeapplication will be the name of our application
tabs parameter is to specify that we will use the ionic 4 tabs template.
--cordova is to specify that we will use cordova to manage native SDKs

At the following question, you can answer n (No)

? Install the free Ionic Appflow SDK and connect your app? (Y/n)

At the end of the installation, a new directory should be created with the name of our application : bikeapplication, and if you go inside, you will find our Ionic 4 project with all the necessary files to build and run the project.
So you can go inside the folder and launch the command:

ionic serve

It should run the ionic application and launch automatically your browser to show you the app. If not launch your browser at the url : http://localhost:8100/home you should see the following :

And of course the application is fully responsive, if you resize your browser the code will adapt.