----add the iOS platform to your application ionic platform add ios ----add the Android platform to your application ionic platform add android

----We are using pouchdb for DB. npm install pouchdb --save

----We have to install typings for pouchdb. npm install @types/pouchdb --save --save-exact

----For access to native storage with an SQLite DB ----and providing more stable data storage. ionic plugin add cordova-sqlite-storage

----To have a webview available to us that we can launch external websites in. ----Its required as it is a depenency of the Facebook plugin we will be using. ionic plugin add cordova-plugin-inappbrowser

----Install facebook plugin with our credentials we got from facebook.developers.com ionic plugin add cordova-plugin-facebook4 --save --variable APP_ID="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" --variable APP_NAME="mychat"

https://fa7f12a7-dbe5-4d74-8ef4-04e62257372c-bluemix.cloudant.com/mychat Key:selypeationstotherrstarz Password:a7bac233b50cc6dad095c887f9b98892a22ee84e