Installing Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. In our case, we will be using a package manager named Bower, which uses Git to download the required libraries. Also, the Ionic CLI uses Git to download the project templates.

To install Git, navigate to http://git-scm.com/downloads and download the installer for your platform. Once you have successfully installed it, we can navigate to the command prompt/terminal and run the following command:

git --version

We should see the following output:

> git version 2.11.0 (Apple Git-81)