You need to install Ionic and its dependencies to get started. Ionic itself is just a collection of CSS styles, Angular components, and standard Cordova plugins. It's also a command-line tool to help manage all technologies, such as Cordova. The installation process will give you a command line to generate the initial code and build the app.
Ionic uses npm as the installer, which is included when installing Node.js. Please install the latest version of Node.js from https://nodejs.org/en/download/.
You will need to install cordova, ios-sim (an iOS Simulator) and ionic:
$ npm install -g cordova ionic ios-sim
You can install all three components with this single command line instead of issuing three command lines separately. The ...