Developing Apache Cordova App using Visual Studio 2015 Community
Visual Studio 2015 Community is a free Comprehensive Windows IDE from Microsoft. You can develop both web apps as well as native apps. It is also cross-platform. Besides these you can develop a whole lot other types of projects including Databases and IoT. This post deals with creating a Apache Cordova app using Visual Studio 2015 Community Update 3. In the New Project... window you find only one template, a Blank App available for developing a Apache Cordova JavaScript based app. ApacheCordova_00.PNG If you accept the default blank project you would see the following in the Solution Explorer. ApacheCordova_01.PNG The project can be developed at least for two platforms Android and Windows unless scripts are not needed for WP8 and IOS devices. By default when you try to build this project, the IDE builds it for Android. The build process is lengthy and takes some time. As this computer does not have Google Chrome installed when you try to Start Debugging, you will ge...