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How to get started with mobile app?

Are you new to mobile development and wondering where to get started in this saturated and complex world of frameworks? Are you wondering whether to go native, hybrid or new kid on the block: PWA ? I would suggest don't waste any time and just get your hands dirty.... When I started looking at mobile development, I went through the same experience. So to save you the time, I would suggest start with Ionic framework to start building Hybrid apps. You should be comfortable with HTML, JavaScript, some CSS and some Angular (SPA framework) knowledge would help but you can learn this as you go along. You can get started with Ionic in 3 simple steps . You can test you app locally in your browser or on your device using DevApp That's all you need to get started!!! Your career as mobile developer started in under 10 mins!! Happy development. Feel free to share any more similar frameworks in comments below. 

Overcoming CORS while testing SPA locally

One of the common problems you common across while developing SPA or hybrid mobile apps locally is that when you make a cross domain API call, this is what you get in your console window XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:8100' is therefore not allowed access.  The reason for this is the browser security is preventing cross domain Ajax call. You can read more about CORS here . As a developer you don't want to worry about this and you just want to drink your coffee, write awesome code and test it your machine. Cool! I do the same! Here is a little secret. You can tell Chrome to ignore the security and allow cross domain request. To do this, create a new shortcut for Chrome and pass these parameters.   --disable-web-security --user-Agent="Android" --user-data-dir="c:/temp-chrome-eng" user-Agent is opt...