E-commerce sample app – BookStore
From the subsequent sections, we will be creating a sample app while learning about different Ionic components and features. Using this approach, you will be able to develop a complete app at the end of this chapter. The code samples used in the following chapters will be available online.
E-commerce is a hot category for Mobile Apps these days, so we will be creating an e-commerce app for books and will call it BookStore. The features of this app and its basic architecture is discussed here.
Features
The e-commerce sample app BookStore will be a basic shopping and book management app that has a list of books with the ability to buy or rent them. The proposed features we intend to cover in the code samples are as follows:
- List of book categories
- Book listings under categories and popular/featured listings
- User account section:
- Login/register
- Profile
- Purchased books/rented books
- Maps
- Shopping section:
- Add to cart
- Edit cart
- Checkout
Architecture and design
We will be using the side menu template as a skeleton for this app. The side menu will contain links for the user account section and the categories list. We will be using a dummy REST API to source data for the mobile application. The Ionic App will contain a basic service layer consisting of multiple Angular services to integrate with this service.