# Ionic samples always "blank"

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-samples-always-blank/5226>\
**Category:** ionic-v1\
**Created:** [June 5, 2014, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-samples-always-blank/5226 "2014-06-05T08:20:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![fdammassa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ab992/32.png) [@fdammassa](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/fdammassa)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-samples-always-blank/5226/1 "2014-06-05T08:20:56Z")

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I’m trying to setup the “tabs” based sample following the instructions at: [http://ionicframework.com/getting-started/](http://ionicframework.com/getting-started/) but I always get the “blank” project.

May it be a bug?

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**Author:** ![mhartington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/mhartington/32/137757_2.png) [@mhartington](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/mhartington)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-samples-always-blank/5226/2 "2014-06-05T12:56:25Z")

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What are you actually typing in your terminal?

```
$ ionic start myApp tabs
```

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**Author:** ![fdammassa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ab992/32.png) [@fdammassa](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/fdammassa)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-samples-always-blank/5226/3 "2014-06-05T13:25:32Z")

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> [@mhartington](#):
>
> ionic start myApp tabs

Yes, exactly. This is my console output:

```
macfab:ionictest fdammassa$ ionic start myApp tabs
Running start task...
Creating Ionic app in folder /Users/fdammassa/ionictest/myApp based on tabs project

DOWNLOADING: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-app-base/archive/master.zip

```

But the content of index.html is always:

```
<body ng-app="starter">
    <ion-pane>
      <ion-header-bar class="bar-stable">
        <h1 class="title">Ionic Blank Starter</h1>
      </ion-header-bar>
      <ion-content class="has-header">
      </ion-content>
    </ion-pane>
  </body>

```

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**Author:** ![mhartington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/mhartington/32/137757_2.png) [@mhartington](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/mhartington)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-samples-always-blank/5226/4 "2014-06-05T14:28:01Z")

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Interesting. Maybe your version of the CLI is out of date?

```
mhartington:Desktop mhartington$ ionic start ionicTabs tabs
Running start task...
Creating Ionic app in folder /Users/gcollins/Desktop/ionicTabs based on tabs project

DOWNLOADING: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-app-base/archive/master.zip

DOWNLOADING: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-starter-tabs/archive/master.zip
Initializing cordova project.
Fetching plugin "org.apache.cordova.device" via plugin registry
Fetching plugin "org.apache.cordova.console" via plugin registry
Fetching plugin "https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-plugins-keyboard" via git clone
mhartington:Desktop mhartington$ 

```

I got that and everything downloaded correctly

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**Author:** ![fdammassa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ab992/32.png) [@fdammassa](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/fdammassa)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-samples-always-blank/5226/5 "2014-06-05T17:16:49Z")

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How can I check that?

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**Author:** ![mhartington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/mhartington/32/137757_2.png) [@mhartington](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/mhartington)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-samples-always-blank/5226/6 "2014-06-05T17:18:59Z")

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You should have this available

```
$ ionic --version
```

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**Author:** ![fdammassa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ab992/32.png) [@fdammassa](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/fdammassa)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-samples-always-blank/5226/7 "2014-06-05T18:24:18Z")

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This is the console output:

```
Ionic CLI version 1.0.14

```

Is this the last one?

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**Author:** ![mhartington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/mhartington/32/137757_2.png) [@mhartington](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/mhartington)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-samples-always-blank/5226/8 "2014-06-05T18:33:52Z")

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Hmm yeah it is. Are you on pc or mac? Also, what version of node do you have?

Try this:

```
$ sudo npm uninstall -g ionic && npm cache clean -g && npm install -g ionic
```

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**Author:** ![fdammassa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ab992/32.png) [@fdammassa](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/fdammassa)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-samples-always-blank/5226/9 "2014-06-05T19:07:52Z")

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Your command didn’t solve my issue.

I’m running on a mac with node v0.11.9.

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**Author:** ![mhartington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/mhartington/32/137757_2.png) [@mhartington](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/mhartington)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-samples-always-blank/5226/10 "2014-06-05T19:23:19Z")

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Could be that your version of node is an unstable release? I’m using 0.10.28 with no issues.  
Not too sure what the issue is if none of that has resolved it.

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**Author:** ![fdammassa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ab992/32.png) [@fdammassa](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/fdammassa)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 8:36am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-samples-always-blank/5226/11 "2014-06-06T08:36:10Z")

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Using node 0.10.28 solved the problem!

Thanks a lot!