Nearme - Ionic 8 / Capacitor 6 Template + Node.js Backend / API

Nearme is a complete solution to create a location-based app for Android, iOS, and the web.

This starter comes with an Admin Portal, a web-based solution where admin users can manage and view categories, places, reviews, slider images, users and send push notifications to customers.

App Features

• Nearby, featured, and most recent places
• Nearby places via Google Maps
• Filter places by Category
• Posts/Deals Listing
• Submit places (pending approval by admin)
• Call to place, directions by the map and open external website
• Publish and view reviews
• Sign In/ Sign Up + Facebook Login
• Password recovery
• Account Management (Profile, Change Password, Logout)
• Favorites
• Search places by keywords
• SEO Friendly
• Multi-language
• RTL Support
• PWA support
• Push Notifications

Admin Portal Features

• Manage Categories
• Manage Places
• Manage Users
• Manage Posts/Deals
• Manage Reviews
• Manage Slider Images
• Send Push Notifications
• Update Password
• Login/Logout
• Password Recovery

Demo

• Google Play
• App Store
• PWA
• Admin Portal (username: admin password: demodemo)

Package

• App Source Code
• Admin Portal Source Code
• API Source code
• Documentation

Technical Details

• Ionic framework is an open-source front-end SDK for developing hybrid mobile apps with HTML5, CSS, and Typescript. Ionic is focused mainly on the look and feel, and UI interaction of your app.
• Admin Portal was built with Angular 19, Tailwind, Typescript and Angular Material.
• Backend was built with Node.js/Express, Parse Server/Dashboard, and Typescript.

ChangeLog

9.0.0 - 30/Nov/2024

Mobile App

• Upgrade to Angular 19
• Upgrade to Ionic 8 with standalone components support
• Upgrade to Capacitor 6
• Update Capacitor plugins
• Update third party dependencies
• FCM support for notifications
• Add Apple privacy manifest
• Bug fixes and minor improvements

Admin Portal

• Upgrade to Angular 19 and Angular Material with standalone components and signal support.
• Update third-party dependencies
• Bug fixes and minor improvements

API

• Typescript support 🎉🥳🎊
• Upgrade to Parse Server 7
• Upgrade to Parse Dashboard 6
• Updated third-party dependencies
• Improved deployment workflow
• Updated installation script
• Bug fixes and minor improvements

8.0.0 - 02/Feb/2022

Mobile App

• Add footer
• Add email, phone, WhatsApp, and price range fields to places
• Add notification view
• Migrate to Stripe Payment Element
• Improve search
• Update to Capacitor ^3.4.0
• Update Capacitor plugins
• Update third party dependencies
• Update to Angular 13
• Update to Ionic ^6.0.4
• Bug fixes and UX improvements

Admin Portal

• NEW Admin Portal built with Angular 13, TailwindCSS, and Angular Material. Enjoy 🚀⚡️🔥
• Update Facebook Graph API requests
• Improve currency display
• Improve total calculation for Stripe
• Improve Mailgun integration
• Update Parse Server 5.0.0-beta
• Update dependencies

7.2.0 – 16/Sep/2021

Mobile App

• Added ability to close the app by pressing the back button twice (Android)
• Improve push notifications
• Improve Intro Screen
• Improve dark mode
• Fix Android SplashScreen
• Fix "Get directions" button
• Update to Swiper 7.0
• Update to Capacitor 3.2.2
• Update all capacitor plugins
• Update third party dependencies
• Update to Ionic 6.0.0 Beta 6
• Bug fixes

Admin Portal

• Improve Parse Server initialization
• Update OneSignal push adapter
• Added title and image fields to push notifications
• Update dependencies

7.1.0 – 09/Aug/2021

Admin portal

• Improve error handling
• Improve Dockerfile
• Add DigitalOcean Spaces support

7.0.0 – 02/Aug/2021

Mobile App

• BREAKING CHANGE - Migration to Capacitor 3.0 🚀🔥
• UPDATE - Angular 12.
• UPDATE - Ionic 6 (beta).
• NEW - Major redesign with Dark Mode 🌝, improved desktop support 🔥 and more.
• NEW - Animated / Floating ion-tab-bar ⚡️⚡️⚡️.
• NEW - Gallery View (PhotoSwipe) for place photos.
• NEW - Search by keywords.
• Added angular google-maps component (@angular/google-maps)
• Added ability to show banners (Slide Images) in Home, Categories, News, and Places view.
• Added ability to edit places.
• Added ability to view place statistics (views, likes, call count, etc.).
• Display the ion-skeleton-text component in the loading state.
• Added checkbox to accept terms & conditions before signing up.
• Remove ion-slides in favor of using swiper directly.
• Ask location and push permission in the Intro Screen with the new Capacitor Permissions API.
• Improve lazy-loading images.
• Update Ionic Storage 3.0.0.
• Update Parse SDK JS 3.3.0.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.
  

Admin Portal

• Added ability to import places via excel.
• Added ability to assign an owner to places.
• Added ability to view place statistics.
• Added ability to import place photos via Google Places API.
• Added ability to edit/delete multiple places.
• Bug fixes.
• Update dependencies.
  

6.2.0 – 06/Feb/2021

Mobile App

• Update Angular 11.1.0
• Update Ionic 5.5.2
• Update ngx-stripe
• Update Parse SDK JS 2.19.0
• Improve change language
• Improve Facebook login
• Add zoom for place images
• Improve images lazy-loading
• Update dependencies and cordova plugins
• Bug fixes and performance improvements

Admin Portal

• Update Parse Server 4.5.0
• Fix notifications
• Update dependencies

6.1.0 – 18/Aug/2020

Mobile App:

• Paid & Promoted Listings with Stripe Payments! 🎉
• AdMob Support 💰
• Apple Sign In support
• Improved Geo-location
• Improved UX / UI
• Improved push notifications
• Angular 10 support
• Update to Ionic 5.3.1
• Update cordova plugins and dependencies
• Bug fixes and general improvements

Admin Portal:

• New Packages / User Packages (Purchased) modules
• Added the option to set the search radius used in mobile app
• Added support for assign multiple categories to places
• Added the option to link a place/post/category to slider images
• Added the option to enable/disable social login
• Added the option to enable/disable place approval
• Added the option to enable/disable the Slide Intro
• Added the option to enable/disable reviews
• Added the option to enable/disable reviews approval
• Added the option to enable/disable multiple reviews per place / per user
• Added the option to link a place/post/category to notifications
• Added the option to send a notification to a specific user
• Added the option to delete notifications
• Bug fixes and general improvements
  

6.0.2 – 03/Mar/2020

• Bug fixes

6.0.1 – 23/Feb/2020

Mobile App:

• Update to Ionic 5.0.1
• Add routine to detect user language

Admin Portal:

• Fix Slide Image / Slide Intro
• Improve Post push notifications
  

6.0.0 – 19/Feb/2020

Mobile App:

• Update to Ionic 5.0.0 and Angular 9 🎉🎉🎉
• NEW setting to enable/disable push notifications
• NEW modal to filter places by rating, distance, and categories
• NEW option to sort places by distance, rating and creation time
• NEW Location Picker
• Added Help section with dynamic pages, social links and contact info
• NEW dynamic Intro Guide
• Google Login support
• OneSignal support
• Enable search by tags
• Added ability to report places
• General improvements and bug fixes

Admin Portal:

• NEW Pages module
• NEW Intro Screen module
• OneSignal support
• Google Login support
• Added email notification when a new listing report is sent
• Added tags field to places
• Added contact and social fields
• Added ability to enable/disable email verifications
• Added map to email notification when a new listing is saved in mobile app
• Added ability to customize password resets and email verifications
• Added option to enable/disable push notification when a new post is saved
• Added user permissions
• Added a dedicated page to view admins and users
• Improved multi-language support
• Improved Geo-notifications
  

5.6.0 – 05/Aug/2019

Mobile App:

• Improvement: Update to Ionic 4.7.0
• Improvement: Angular 8 support
• Improvement: Update all cordova plugins to latest version
• Bug fix: Fix lazy load images issue
• Bug fix: Fix add place on desktop mode
  

Admin Portal

• Improvement: Update Parse Server, Parse Dashboard and Parse SDK JS to latest version
• Bug fix: Fix category query in homepage data
• Bug fix: Fix place count after delete a place record
  

5.5.0 – 08/Jul/2019

Mobile App:

• Improvement: Update to Ionic 4.5.0
• Improvement: Cordova 9 support
• Improvement: Cordova-Android 8.0.0 and Cordova-iOS 5.0.0 support
• Improvement: FCM Support for push notifications
• Improvement: Add autocomplete search on Place Add page and Map page
• Improvement: Enhanced Angular Routing
• Improvement: Add list view on Map page (only desktop)
• Improvement: Add Bottom Drawer component on Map page (only mobile)
• Improvement: Redesign Profile page
• Improvement: New 'My Places' page
• Improvement: Optimize geolocation routines
• Improvement: Filter by category in map page
• Improvement: Update all cordova plugins to latest version
• Improvement: Remove Browser Tab in favor of SafariViewController
• Bug fix: Fix place gallery issue
• Bug fix: Fix ion-refresher issue
• Bug fix: Fix open external links on pwa mode
• Bug fix: Fix Get Directions link
  

Admin Portal:

• Improvement: Add Geo-push notifications
• Improvement: Email notifications for new listings
• Improvement: Optimize resize images
• Improvement: Add Update password for current logged user
• Improvement: Updated front-end/back-end dependencies
• Improvement: Add option to change front-end language
• Improvement: Move translations to dedicated json files
• Bug fix: Fix server side login to allow multiple logged admin users
• Bug fix: Fix update user password
• Bug fix: Fix place count on each category
  

5.0.4 – 11/Feb/2019

Mobile App:

• Improvement: Update to Ionic 4.0.1
• Improvement: Reset push badge on app startup
• Improvement: Lock orientation to portrait mode
• Improvement: Added routine to change HTML direction dynamically
• Improvement: Disabled splashscreen spinner
• Improvement: Added notice for Facebook Login in PWA mode
• Bug fix: Fixed bug causing photo deleted after profile update
• Bug fix: Fixed FB Login on Desktop
• Bug fix: Fixed lighbox display on iphone x
• Bug fix: Show success message after password reset request
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Admin Portal:

• Improvement: Increment push notification badge
  

5.0.3 – 01/Feb/2019

• Fix error "This user is not allowed to access non-existent class" after admin portal installation
• Added whatsapp share (PWA)
  

5.0.2 – 27/Jan/2019

• Performance / SEO improvements
• Bug fixes
• Improved Social Share
  

5.0.0 - 22/Sep/2018

• Initial release