I am working in a cloud IDE (cloud9) and have followed the instructions on their website to start an Ionic app (https://docs.c9.io/frameworks_ionic.html):
$ npm install -g cordova ionic
$ ionic start myApp tabs
$ cd myApp
$ ionic serve $PORT
Doing so, when I go to my page that the server points to, it takes up to one minute to load the page. Is this normal because I am in a cloud environment or is there something fishy? When I do simple projects with AngularJS it loads it immediately...
start your app in the C9 terminal with "ionic serve $PORT --nolivereload" and your pages will load at light speed. C9 doesn't support ionic live reload.
Ionic team member here. So this is most likely because you are using a cloud based IDE.
Starting a sample app locally and running ionic serve produces no where close to a one minute load time. This probably because Cloud9 wasn't build to handle a live reload from their servers, to a users machine.