Some guiding in my first iOnic project: GET data, save parts of data as favorites

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Hi,

I’m trying to build my first iOnic app. My experience with building web-apps is pretty low.
I only builded one in a curriculum on university. And now I want it to bring it to a next level.

But I’m a little bit stuck with the best approach, because of some functions that I want to have in it.

I’m trying to build an app, that is doing an GET request to an external JSON API. The GET request should have a limit of only downloading 40/50 random objects and save these to localstorage so the data is still available when there is no connection.

Then I also want to be able to mark one/more of those 50 objects as favorites and save it locally(local JSON file?), but doesn’t erase when I shut down the app. So when you start the app, you can still see your favorites.

Thanks for helping out!

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Take a look at the TrendCity demo app (from the book ‘Developing an Ionic Edge’) on GitHub: https://github.com/trendicity/trendicity

It consumes a RESTful API (Instagram) + it has a ‘favorites’ feature as well.

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@aproskam

Hoping you are familiar with Ionic css and javascript components.

  1. You can use https://randomuser.me/ for API. Please checkout their documentation for API.
  2. Use NgCordova for mobile specific plugins: link how to use it : http://ngcordova.com/docs/install/
    like sqlite, network, file, file-transfer. Here is bunch of ngCordova plugins which are 100% compatible with ionic.
  3. Design app in ionic and start adding functionality one by one.

Start coding and as you move along if stuck look for answers. This is a great community, you will find most of the answers here.