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Build a WhatsApp Clone with Ionic 2, Angular 2, and Meteor

This article was published on Wednesday, November 30, 2016 by Uri Goldshtein @ The Guild Blog

A version of this post was originally published on the
Ionic Blog.

Now, a year has passed and a lot has happened: Angular 2.0 is now stable, including astonishing
amount of new features for the platform. Ionic 2.0 entered RC stage and is very close to being
final. Finally, Meteor reached version 1.4.2,
with many improvements the community asked for (fast build times, full npm and yarn support, Node
4.6.1 and MongoDB 3 by default, etc...).

New Ionic / Meteor WhatsApp Tutorials

Today, I'm happy to announce we are releasing two new versions of the Ionic/Meteor Whatsapp
tutorial, this time with Angular 2.0 and Ionic 2.0, one using the Ionic CLI and one using the
Meteor CLI.

In these tutorials, we'll create a full WhatsApp clone using Angular 2 and Ionic 2. We'll use
Meteor's realtime collections for the chat and Meteor's simple Authentication packages for SMS-based
authentication.

It's great to see the power of these two solutions working together, keeping the platforms
up-to-date with the latest improvements in the Javascript ecosystem!

Start here.

Angular2-Meteor

By the way, if you noticed that the Angular-Meteor.com website is much
faster, it's because we've completely re-written it using Angular 2 and universal rendering to
generate it as a static website. On top of that, more features are coming to Angular2-Meteor very
soon, including lazy loading of modules and support for the AOT compiler.

If you're thinking about migrating from Blaze to Angular2, or using them side by side, check out our
migration tutorial here.

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