ionic side menu does not appear

angularjs, ionic-framework, javascript

Solution

Wow I finally worked this out after losing a day to skimpy documentation. The tutorials and examples on ionic framework website seem to be seriously outdated.

First, I created a factory to provide the list items for the side menu:

 .factory('MenuService', function() {
  var menuItems = [{text: 'Friends'}, {text: 'Enemies'}, {text: 'Losers'}];

  return {
    all: function() {
      return menuItems;
    }
  }
})

Then, I created a menu controller:

.controller('MenuController', function ($scope, $location, MenuService) {
  // "MenuService" is a service returning mock data (services.js)
  $scope.list = MenuService.all();
});

I replaced the code in the body of the index.html page with this:

    <div ng-controller="MenuController">
      <ion-side-menus>

          <!-- Center content -->
          <ion-pane ion-side-menu-content>
              <ion-nav-bar type="bar-assertive" back-button-type="button-icon" back-button-icon="ion-arrow-left-c"></ion-nav-bar>

              <ion-nav-view>
              </ion-nav-view>
          </ion-pane>

          <!-- Left Side Menu -->
          <ion-side-menu side="right">
              <ion-header-bar class="bar bar-header bar-assertive">
                  <h1 class="title">Menu</h1>
              </ion-header-bar>
              <ion-content has-header="true">
                  <ion-list>
                      <ion-item ng-click="goTo(item.link)" class="item item-icon-left" ng-repeat="item in list" menu-close>
                          <!-- <i ng-class="item.iconClass"></i> -->
                          {{item.text}}
                      </ion-item>
                  </ion-list>
              </ion-content>
          </ion-side-menu>
      </ion-side-menus>
  </div>

The factory took the place of the sidemenus.html that I had in the template directory. Also, the ".state" stuff was not needed at all.

Problem

So I'm trying to use ionic to build a simple mobile app. I've looked at ionic tutorials and googled quite a bit but I'm not quite getting it. I have created a nav bar that shows up on every page by adding this code to the index.html page: ``` <body ng-app="starter"> <ion-nav-bar class="bar-stable nav-title-slide-ios7"> <ion-nav-back-button class="button-icon icon ion-ios7-arrow-back"> </ion-nav-back-button> </ion-nav-bar> <ion-nav-view> </ion-nav-view> </body> ``` I added a navicon to the right side of the nav bar on one of my pages with this code: ``` <ion-view title="Hanzi Options"> <ion-nav-buttons side="right"> <button menu-toggle="right" class="button button-icon icon ion-navicon" > </button> </ion-nav-buttons> <ion-content>...etc ``` I would like to be able to click on the navicon and see a side menu containing a basic html page called sidemenu.html that is located in the templates folder. Here is the start of the code in that file: ``` <ion-side-menus> <ion-pane ion-side-menu-content> <ion-nav-bar class="bar-stable nav-title-slide-ios7"> <ion-nav-back-button class="button-clear"><i class="icon ion-ios7-arrow-back"></i> Back</ion-nav-back-button> </ion-nav-bar> <ion-nav-view name="menuContent" animation="slide-left-right"></ion-nav-view> </ion-pane> <ion-side-menu side="left"> <header class="bar bar-header bar-stable"> <h1 class="title">Navigate</h1> </header> <ion-content class="has-header"> <ion-list> <ion-item nav-clear menu-close href="#/friends"> Friends </ion-item>...etc ``` I added this code to my app.js file in the .config section: ``` .state('app.sidemenu', { url: "/sidemenu", abstract: true, templateUrl: "templates/sidemenu.html", controller: 'NavCtrl' }) ``` and an empty NavCtrl to my controllers.js file: ``` .controller('NavCtrl', function($scope) { }); ``` I suspect that maybe my .state code isn't quite right but not sure. Also, do I need to add something to the NavCtrl controller to open/close the side menu? Many thanks in advance!

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