Installation problems and how to start editing files on Windows

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I’ve done some ColdFusion development, but Angular, Ionic, Vagrant, and bash is all new to me. Git is almost new. Maybe I’m biting off more than I can chew, but I want to give this a try. (I did successfully create a tiny working app about a year ago with JS and a few AJAX calls and PhoneGap Build to generate the binaries and loaded and ran the app on my android phone.)

I worked through the installation process on the Ionic site with a couple of problems. First of all, I am working on Windows 7, I log in with my name, but I am the only user and of course I am an administrator. I used the Vagrant package all-in-one setup which istalled a least a million files :slight_smile: I noticed that it included the Android SDK stuff. It seemed to me that the idea is to create a virtual development environment and emulator that is somehow isolated from Windows.

From the installation guide on the Ionic website, I tried to run:

npm install -g cordova ionic

but I got errors that seemed related to permissions. I then tried:

npm install cordova ionic

and that worked. Any problems with leaving off the -g? Then I ran

ionic start firstApp tabs

That seemed fine, but all the files created are owned by ‘vagrant’ and I don’t know where they are. bash says the files are in: home/vagrant/firstApp, but I can’t find that anywhere on Windows.

I continued with:

cd firstApp
ionic platform add android

and got more errors. These seemed pretty serious:

‘Could not find JAVA_HOME. Try setting the environment variable manually’

I am beginning to feel out of my league here. My immediate question at this point is how can I edit the files in the project? The framework was created and that is a good start, but how can I open the files in an editor if I can’t find them in Windows?

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I recommend you to see the video Instalation process on Windows and follow all steps 1 by 1 , is explained very well and last error

is because Java Path is not definied in variable enviroment. I really recommend to watch all video, and if you follow all steps, the problems you’ll have would be 0 :slight_smile:

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Thanks. That helped and everything is now working. It would seem that the Getting Started page actually only applies to the Mac people. That would have been good to know.