title: Angular 4 Web Application to Ionic 3 App
body: <p>Okay, so I have a working angular 4 web application that uses NodeJS as backend and MongoDB as a database. I know that Ionic 3 is based of Angular 4, and that is the extent of my knowledge of ionic.</p>
  
  <p>I looked up the file structure, it all looks the same to me. The only difference I could find was the template structure and rooting is a little bit different. The rest I find the same. My question is, any chance that I could turn my web application into an ionic 3 app? Or do I have to create a new project separately and copy paste all the files that should be the same?</p>
  
  <p>What I really want to do is to have a web and mobile application side by side, and do something (possibly a magic) so that the server knows which files to serve. If the request is being made through a web application, then serve angular template/route otherwise ionic template/route.</p>
  
  <p>P.S. As you can tell, I have no knowledge of ionic yet. Wouldn't call myself an angular expert either. Any help on how to get started would be greatly appreciated.</p>