The last couple days I have been struggling with installing Ionic 2 on my Windows 10 laptop.
Here is my Ionic info:
C:\Dev\ionicProjects>ionic info
Your system information:
Cordova CLI: 6.3.1
Gulp version: CLI version 3.9.0
Gulp local:
Ionic CLI Version: 2.1.0
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.1.0-beta.1
OS:
Node Version: v6.7.0
Here is the error I was getting when trying to start a project. Really helpful, right?
C:\Dev\ionicProjects>ionic start –v2 myApp
Creating Ionic app in folder C:\Dev\ionicProjects\myApp based on tabs project
Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic2-app-base/archive/master.zip
[=============================] 100% 0.0s
Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic2-starter-tabs/archive/master.zip
[=============================] 100% 0.0s
Installing npm packages…
Error with start undefined
Error Initializing app: There was an error with the spawned command: npminstall
There was an error with the spawned command: npminstall
Caught exception:
undefined
Mind letting us know? https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-cli/issues
So I struggled trying many different things and finally figured out that I needed to install git which is needed for running ionic start.
SOLUTION: Download and install git from here
https://git-for-windows.github.io/
Then restart your command prompt and hopefully it work just as it did for me…