Employee Directory with Ionic and Node

Employee directory is a sample application that allows you to look up employees by name, view the details of an employee, call, text, or email an employee, and navigate up and down the org chart.

This version of Employee Directory is built with Ionic and Node.js.

You can test the application in your browser:

Using the hosted version
By running the application's Node.js server locally
By deploying the application's Node.js server on Heroku

You can also run the application as a hybrid app in Cordova.

Hosted Version

Click here to run the hosted version in your browser.

Running the Node.js Server Locally

Make sure you have an up-to-date version of Node.js installed on your system. If you don't have Node.js installed, you can install it from here.
Clone this repository
On the command line, navigate (cd) to the directory-ionic-nodejs folder
Install the server dependencies

npm install

Start the server

node server

Open a browser and access: http://localhost:5000

Deploying the Node.js Server to Heroku

Click the "Deploy to Heroku" button at the top of this page to deploy the application to your own Heroku instance.

Running in Cordova

Step 1: Install Ionic

Make sure you have an up-to-date version of Node.js installed on your system. If you don't have Node.js installed, you can install it from here.
Open a terminal window (Mac) or a command window (Windows), and install Cordova and Ionic:

npm install -g cordova ionic

On a Mac, you may have to use sudo depending on your system configuration:

sudo npm install -g cordova ionic

If you already have Cordova and Ionic installed on your computer, make sure you update to the latest version:

npm update -g cordova ionic

sudo npm update -g cordova ionic

Step 2: Create the application

Using the Ionic CLI, create an application named employee-directory:

ionic start employee-directory

Delete the default www folder in the employee-directory folder that was just created
Copy the www folder from this repository to the Ionic project's employee-directory folder
Modify www/js/services.js and specify the URL where your Node.js server is running. For example:

angular.module('directory.services', ['ngResource'])
    .factory('Employees', function ($resource) {
        return $resource('http://ionic-directory.herokuapp.com/employees/:employeeId/:data');
    });

Step 3: Building for iOS

You need the iOS SDK installed on your computer to build an iOS version of your application using the steps below.

On the command line, make sure you are in the employee-directory folder
Add support for the iOS platform:
```
ionic platform add ios
```
Build the project:
```
ionic build ios
```
Open employee-directory.xcodeproj in the employee-directory/platforms/ios folder
In Xcode, run the application on a device connected to your computer or in the iOS emulator

Step 4: Building for Android

You need the Android SDK installed on your computer to build an Android version of your application using the steps below.

Make sure the Android SDK and the ant build tool are available on your system. The Android SDK is available here. Both the android and ant tools must be available in your path. To test your configuration, you should be able to execute both android and ant from the command line.
On the command line, make sure you are in the employee-directory folder
Add support for the Android platform:
```
ionic platform add android
```
Build the project:
```
ionic build android
```
The project is built in the employee-directory/platforms/android folder
To build and run the application on an Android device connected to your computer using a USB cable:
```
ionic run android
```
To build and run the application in the Android emulator:
```
ionic emulate android
```

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