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Awesome.

#New Readme

is here: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-cli

That’s the gist of it:

We have rewritten the CLI from the ground up. Our main focus was to:

Decrease the amount of time to the first start execution

Improve the responsiveness of every CLI command

Make the architecture flexible for future platform support (PWA, electron, etc.)

Provide better help, more guidance, and more feedback when executing commands.

In doing so we decided to take a new approach to the CLI’s structure. The base CLI installation now ships with global commands that are common to all Ionic apps.

#Upgrade Instructions

for current Ionic projects are here:

https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-cli#existing-project

and here for Ionic v1 projects:

https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-cli#existing-project-1

Changelog

is here:

https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-cli/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Most relevant change is probably this one:

Cordova commands have been namespaced ( ionic --> ionic cordova ) to allow for future platform support and to reduce clutter. Cordova functionality has been moved into a CLI plugin, which is installed by default with new Ionic projects and can be installed in existing Ionic projects with npm i --save @ionic/cli-plugin-cordova .

New official CLI documentation

lives here http://ionicframework.com/docs/cli/ and is so much better than the old one.

My testing of the last few RCs was great, so I will upgrade soon. Not much that can go wrong now, and just the speedup is worth it.

What is your experience?