Creating the New Project

Create a project

Now that you have seen what you are going to build, it is time to get the project up and running.

As previously mentioned, before I start any new Ionic project, I want to make sure I am on the latest Ionic CLI. Do that first.

Run the following commands:

npm install -g @ionic/cli@latest
ionic start

When asked, select Angular as the framework. Next, supply the name of the project. I chose “a10dance.” Select the blank template for this one. You will be implementing a side menu, but I would rather have us build it from scratch. Besides, this way you will be cutting a lot less boilerplate code.

If you are asked about Capacitor integration, say no. If it does not ask, but enables it automatically, that is fine. You will not be working with AppFlow, so answer no to the question about connecting it to an Ionic account.

Run the above commands in the provided terminal. Follow through the above-mentioned steps of project creation and observe the outputs.