#Getting Started
The included Grunt build system provides sensible defaults to help optimize and automate several aspects of your workflow when developing hybrid-mobile apps using the Ionic Framework.
##Walkthrough To help you hit the ground running, let's walk through an example workflow together. We're assuming you've followed the usage directions and are inside your app's directory.
We'll start by running our app in a browser so we can make a few changes.
grunt serve
Play around with livereload by changing some of the styles in app/styles/main.css or HTML in one of the files in app/templates/. When you're ready, lets go ahead and build the assets for Cordova to consume and also spot check that we didn't bork any code during the build process. We can do that with another handy Grunt task that runs the build process and then launches a connect server for use to preview the app with our built assets.
grunt serve:dist
If everything looks good the next step is to add a platform target and then emulate our app. In order for us to launch the iOS simulator from the command line, we'll have to install the ios-sim package. (If you forget to do this, Cordova will kindly remind you).
npm install -g ios-sim
grunt platform:add:ios
grunt emulate:ios
You may have realized that when the Grunt build process is run, it triggers the Cordova build system as well, so you end up with a beautifully packaged mobile app in a single command.
consolelogs - on serve and emulate
#Android Walkthrough
Check out this doc if you would like a detailed android walkthrough!
#Testing
Now that you've started, why not learn how to test your app?