How to use Ionic Cloud with Angular 1.5 - angularjs

Question

I've reached a bit of a dead-end and I am not sure how to proceed. I have developed my Web Application on Angular 1.5.9. I have just now ported over my web app to the Ionic App using ionic start app_name. Everything is working as it should. However, my next step is to set-up the deploy and ionic services. At first I tried adding ionic add ionic-platform-web-client. But since its deprecated and from reading the recent docs, I understood I should now use ionic cloud. So I installed ionic cloud using npm install #ionic/cloud-angular --save. I then got the dependency error saying that:
├── UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY #angular/core#^2.1.1 || ^4.0.0
So looking into it further, I realised that I need to have Angular 2 for it and also to complete the ionic cloud configuration, I also need to update the src/app/app.module.ts file. My questions are:
How can I use Angular 2 when I am using Angular 1.5.6 for my Web App? Rewriting my Angular 1.5 app to Angular 2 is not feasible. Can I use both simultaneously? If so, how? How can I resolve this?
Any help will be great since I cannot find any info on using the latest ionic cloud with Angular 1.5. My current set-up is:
Cordova CLI: 6.5.0
Ionic CLI Version: 2.2.2
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.2.1
ios-deploy version: 1.9.1
ios-sim version: 5.0.13
OS: macOS Sierra
Node Version: v7.9.0
Xcode version: Xcode 8.3.2 Build version 8E2002
Angular: 1.5.9

Answer 1

Ionic Cloud Client can be used with Ionic 1 / Angular 1.5. This is what I did:
Install Ionic Cloud:
npm install #ionic/cloud --save
Copy the files to www/lib directory:
cp node_modules/#ionic/cloud/dist/bundle/ionic.cloud.min.js www/lib
Include the link in your project’s index.html:
<script src="lib/ionic.cloud.min.js"></script>
Set the Platform to assign your app a unique app id and api key:
ionic io init
Install Caodova's deploy plugin:
cordova plugin add ionic-plugin-deploy --save
Inject Deploy dependency ionic.cloud to the Angular module:
angular.module('application', ['ionic.cloud']) ...
Do the Deploy Check using $ionicDeploy inside the .run Block of the Angular 1.5 config file.
.run(function($ionicDeploy) {
$ionicDeploy.check().then(function(snapshotAvailable) {
if (snapshotAvailable) {
// When snapshotAvailable is true, you can apply the snapshot
$ionicDeploy.download().then(function() {
$ionicDeploy.extract().then(function() {
$ionicDeploy.load();
});
});
}
}); // end deploy check
};
Thats it! It was simpler than I though. Here is the link to the Docs for more info: http://docs.ionic.io/setup.html#installation