Run an old ionic app made in 2016

Ionic Framework
#1

I’ve developed an app with Ionic in the beginning of 2016 (I don’t remember the version of Ionic, which was the latest at that time).

At that time, Angular (v2+) was AngularJS (v1) and v2 was just an idea. I mean by that: I was forced to use AngularJS (v1) with Ionic.

Three years later and a few months later, I want to make some changes to this app. But somehow I can’t. It seems that support for AngularJS (v1) has been abandoned.

All I want is to be able to run it as it is (and maybe if possible make some little changes). I don’t want to upgrade to Angular (v7). I don’t even want to publish to the Apple Store or Google Store anymore (what a waste of time it was). All I want is to produce a web build of the app (as it is right now) and serve it somewhere.

There should be a way to do that! I mean, I spent so much time building this app and just 3 years later I cannot touch it anymore.

I was an early adopter of Ionic. I feel punished for it.

Any advice is welcomed. Thanks in advance.

#2

The package.json at the top level of the app should remember, and its contents would be extremely useful to anybody trying to help you here.

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#3

Hello @rapropos,

The package.json is:

{
  "name": "BridgeAtHome",
  "version": "1.0.2",
  "description": "BridgeAtHome",
  "dependencies": {
    "babel-plugin-transform-es2015-modules-amd": "^6.3.13",
    "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.3.13",
    "bower": "^1.3.3",
    "gulp": "^3.9.0",
    "gulp-babel": "^6.1.1",
    "gulp-concat": "^2.2.0",
    "gulp-minify-css": "^0.3.0",
    "gulp-rename": "^1.2.0",
    "gulp-sass": "^2.0.4",
    "gulp-sourcemaps": "^1.6.0",
    "gulp-util": "^2.2.14",
    "shelljs": "^0.3.0",
    "vinyl-buffer": "^1.0.0",
    "vinyl-source-stream": "^1.1.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {},
  "cordovaPlugins": [
    "cordova-plugin-device",
    "cordova-plugin-console",
    "cordova-plugin-whitelist",
    "cordova-plugin-splashscreen",
    "cordova-plugin-statusbar",
    "cordova-plugin-statusbar",
    "ionic-plugin-keyboard",
    "cordova-plugin-inappbrowser"
  ],
  "cordovaPlatforms": [
    "ios@4.1.0",
    "android"
  ]
}

As you can see, no reference to ionic. I think ionic was referenced with bower at that time. Here’s the bower.json file:

{
  "name": "HelloIonic",
  "private": "true",
  "devDependencies": {
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "ionic": "driftyco/ionic-bower#master",
    "angular": "1.5.1-build.4623+sha.7324804",
    "angular-animate": "1.5.1-build.4623+sha.7324804",
    "angular-sanitize": "1.5.1-build.4623+sha.7324804",
    "angular-ui-router": "0.2.18"
  },
  "resolutions": {
    "angular": "1.5.1-build.4623+sha.7324804",
    "angular-animate": "1.5.1-build.4623+sha.7324804",
    "angular-sanitize": "1.5.1-build.4623+sha.7324804",
    "angular-ui-router": "0.2.18"
  }
}
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#4

That’s a moving target, so is going to be rather challenging to replicate. I would start looking in here.