[IONIC] Setup Ionic project from existing source

There will be situation that you'll need to fork an existing Ionic project into a new project. However recently I found out that  Ionic website only talk about how to initiate a new ionic project but not setup from an existing source.


So to here is how you setup an Ionic project from existing source

• Download the project from your source repository, most of us should be using git now. e.g.

> git clone <project URL>

• Then change directory to the project directory and run npm install to install all the plugins and modules defined in package.json

> cd <project>
> npm install

• Finally run bower install to install all javascript libraries that is defined in bower.json. If you didn't install bower, I highly recomend that you use bower to manage the javascript libraries that is needed by Ionic. You can check bower website for more info.

> bower install

That's it you can now run the following command to test and debug your app.

• To run the app in browser

> ionic serve

• To run on device

> ionic platform add <platform> 
> ionic run 

Happy Coding!