Develop Ionic Angular iOS Android Apps for WooCommerce

Explore essential topics in modern JavaScript and Angular fundamentals before diving into Ionic 4 app development for WooCommerce, and set up a code editor for the project.

Explore arrow functions in es6 within Angular, using map to transform array elements and access indices, and apply this pattern in Ionic 4 WooCommerce app development.

Explore how the this keyword binds to the containing object and, outside an object, to the global window object, enabling access to properties and methods.

Explore how promises in Angular track whether an event happened, transitioning from pending to fulfilled or rejected, and use them to notify users when a name or email is used.

Explore how async and await work with promises to handle asynchronous JavaScript, ensuring functions wait for values before proceeding using a practical setTimeout example.

Extend a base class to create a subclass with a constructor and access inherited properties and methods, and add a manufacturer method to calculate the final price.

Outline core topics for building Ionic 4 Angular WooCommerce apps, including authentication, authorization, policy validation, and handling requests, for practical, hands-on practice.

Learn how Angular, an open source web application framework, and TypeScript, a JavaScript superset, enable building client apps with object oriented features and code that compiles to JavaScript.

Set up the Angular development environment by installing Node.js, npm, Angular CLI, and Ionic Framework, then verify versions and prepare to create the first app.

Use angular cli to create an app, establish a two-page structure with home and list, configure routing, and update index and global styles.

Create and use a data service to centralize product data, eliminating redundancy and enabling sharing across pages for a maintainable, reusable Ionic Angular WooCommerce app.

Explore template-driven forms in Ionic 4 Angular for WooCommerce, building a simple single-input form with name validation, binding a submit button, and displaying specific error messages.

Explore how Ionic 4 uses web technologies to build mobile apps that run inside and on all modern browsers, mastering essential topics needed to code and understand the app.

Explore how Ionic is a fast, free, open-source platform that lets web developers build cross-platform mobile apps for Android and iOS, with intuitive UI components that accelerate development and deployment.

Explore Ionic UI components and how attributes and properties control their look and feel. See examples like tags and stars, and review usage guidelines for slots and containers.

Discover how to use Ion list and Ion button components in Ionic 4, including list items, product displays, and the effects of size, color, expand, block, full, and outline.

Learn to design and render ion cards for products, with header, image, price subtitle, title, and content, and dynamically loop through products for a responsive mobile view.

Explore how Ion grid uses rows and columns to create responsive layouts with breakpoints, via the size attribute, adjusting column counts for different screen sizes.

View an Ionic app on the Android emulator by installing Android Studio. Follow documentation to generate and build the Android app and run it on the emulator.

Learn to view an Ionic 4 Angular app on an iOS emulator using capacitor, including Mac setup, generating the iOS app, and running it in Xcode with a developer account.

Install WordPress, generate an API to connect your local shop with the store, and gain a quick overview of the setup. Learn basic WordPress configuration for the project.

WordPress is open-source software that began in 2003 and serves as a content management system for blogs, news sites, and online stores, with themes for galleries, mailing lists, and forums.

WooCommerce adds eCommerce functionality to WordPress, powering 28% of online stores, with a large developer community, official documentation, 5 million plus installs, and a REST API for mobile apps.

Install WordPress to a server by downloading WordPress, uploading it to a subdomain, extracting the files, and configuring credentials to log in and launch the site.

Import WooCommerce demo data to set up shop content, including sample products and categories, after installing and configuring WooCommerce.

Learn how to generate and securely store an api key for app development, enabling read and write access to products, categories, users, and orders within your Ionic app.

Learn to set up the Ionic 4 Angular app for WooCommerce by creating essential services, configuring routing and navigation, setting up the web server, and implementing authentication.

Create a webstore app project from the ionic cli, use angular, and install dependencies; then open the app directory to start the app.

Create necessary pages and services from the Ionic CLI for a WooCommerce app, including logging, product and categories pages, plus authentication and commerce services.

Link pages to the left menu by editing app.component.ts and the routing module to add products, categories, tags, cart, checkout, login, register, and orders, with toolbar buttons and icons.

Configure routing and navigation for the WooCommerce app by wiring product, category, and tag routes in the app routing modules, including single product views and back navigation.

Install and configure a JWT authentication plugin for WordPress to secure the WP REST API, then tweak the server to work with the plugin.

Configure the server and app for jwt authentication by adding the secret key to the wp-config.php, integrating the wp rest api plugin, and preparing for logging and registration.

Explore commerce using the Elvis api documentation site to get overview of the needed api components and start building our app by accessing categories, tags, and a single product view.

Fetch all products from the store by configuring the WooCommerce api with consumer key and secret, then call the commerce service in an Ionic Angular app to list product data.

Create a single product page that displays detailed information for a chosen product by retrieving its product id through a get request and rendering it in the app.

Fetch all product categories by calling the commerce service's categories endpoint, log results, display them with a spinner, and map each category's id and name.

Learn to fetch products by a specific category in an Ionic 4 Angular WooCommerce app, wiring category-based requests to retrieve and display all products in that category.

Fetch products by a specific product tag in an Ionic 4 Angular WooCommerce app, using category IDs to pull items like t-shirts, fashion, and sunglasses.

Learn to display the actual product name on the toolbar when viewing a single product page in a WooCommerce app built with Ionic 4 Angular for iOS and Android.

Implement authentication for a WooCommerce app by signing up new customers, logging in existing users, and logging out; manage login state using local storage.

Create a signup form with a submit button, using input fields and column sizing to structure a clean Ionic 4 Angular app form.

Develop and reuse an email validation function in a shared service to sanitize inputs, enforce allowed characters, convert to lowercase, and ensure only proper emails are accepted.

Bind a signup function to the submit button and post a register customer request with headers and credentials. Handle the promise and log success or errors to the console.

Explore how to implement sign-up success and error feedback with Ionic toast notifications, configuring position, duration (2000 ms), close button, and reusable toast service for username and email cases.

Develop a login form with email input and a submit button, and implement form validation for success and failure. Create the sign-in function and verify the login flow.

Implement the create login function in the Ionic 4 Angular iOS Android WooCommerce app, wiring username and password validation and JWT-based authentication to obtain a token on success.

Save the current user's login email and ID to local storage after a successful login to verify the user and avoid re-login.

Implement a logout button on the home page, bind a click event, and clear local storage to log users out, then update the login state on the home base.

Implement an authorization with an auth guard in an Ionic 4 Angular app to restrict access to sensitive pages for logged-in users and redirect unauthenticated users to login.

We now dive into the app's actual shopping functionality, prepare for a focused, fresh start, and tackle a lot of work in this new section.

Learn how to implement an add to cart button on a single product page in an Ionic 4 Angular WooCommerce app, wiring the click event and validating cart updates.

Show the number of items in the cart on the cart icon and update it automatically as items are added, using a behavior subject to emit the latest cart count.

Implement a live update for cart item numbers in an Ionic 4 Angular app by importing services, calling the update function inside a product, and ensuring fast reloads.

Learn how to change the quantity per product on the cart page in ionic 4 angular iOS Android apps for WooCommerce, including updates to the order and product selection.

Learn to delete an item from the cart by removing it from the underlying list and updating the cart state, ensuring the cart reflects the removal correctly.

Learn to calculate the total amount for all added cart items in a WooCommerce app by iterating through products, applying price and quantity, and producing the final total.

Celebrate completing the shopping cart and move toward a fast order by building a simple checkout and finally placing an order.

Navigate to the checkout page by validating cart contents; show the checkout link only when at least one product exists, and implement the checkout flow using cart data.

Fetch all available payment gateways for a WooCommerce app, guiding how to configure consumer and consumer secret within an Ionic 4 Angular project.

Showcases building and displaying a short order history in a WooCommerce Ionic 4 Angular app, detailing price calculation, quantity updates, and checkout flow with shipping options like UPS.

Explain how to implement a billing and shipping form for WooCommerce orders by defining variables for billing and shipping fields and formatting the data for order submission.

Activate the place order button only after selecting a payment method and amendment, wiring the frontend to the backend to submit the order and fetch required data.

Show a success message after a successful order and handle failures by validating order data, fixing missing tags, and ensuring order details like name and address are stored correctly.