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I’m new to Ionic and want a stable environment. I was told Ionic 2.2.3 and Cordova 6.4.0 are stable. So I used the following steps:

  1. npm install -g ionic@2.2.3

  2. npm install -g cordova@6.4.0

  3. Ran into problems with @ionic-native/network which was resolved in this post

  4. Ran npm outdated to show all cordova plugins needing to be updated

  5. Ran cordova plugin remove/add on plugins needing to be updated until all required versions were met.

My dev env is Windows and VS Code. As mentioned, I’m new to Ionic so please give advice.