The Ionic Framework command line utility makes it easy to start, build, run, and emulate Ionic apps. In the future, it will also have support for our mobile development services and tools that make Ionic even more powerful.

$ sudo npm install -g ionic

$ ionic start myApp

$ ionic platform ios android

$ ionic build ios

$ ionic emulate ios

$ ionic run ios

Ionic uses Cordova underneath, so you can also substitute Cordova commands to prepare/build/emulate/run, or to add additional plugins.

Note: we occasionally anonymous usage statistics to the Ionic team to make the tool better.