Impossible to get Ionic running

@gdelazzari wrote:

It's been several times that I'm trying to even create an Ionic project, but with no success.

I'm on Elementary OS Freya and I:

• Installed Node.js with 3 different methods, trying all the versions. I tried with the version in the repositories (the legacy and the non-legacy one) then I tried following these instructions https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/, then I tried downloading the tarball from the Node.js homepage and copying the files in my system. Both with version 4.x and 5.x
• Installed cordova and ionic using npm (every time I reinstalled node.js, I cleaned up everything and started from scratch) with the command line given in the "Getting started" page (sudo npm install -g cordova ionic)
• Run the command to create a project, like ionic start myApp sidebar

Every time, in every possibile combination of node.js version and install method, I get this (in the last step):

$ ionic start myApp sidemenu
module.js:327
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'xmlbuilder'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/node_modules/xml2js/lib/xml2js.js:12:13)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/node_modules/xml2js/lib/xml2js.js:436:4)
    at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)

So I tried installing the missing package with npm, using npm install -g xmlbuilder, but another "missing package" error came up, with another package. I started manually installing all of them, but the list was endless and I started to get tired, so I gave up. And, by the way, I don't think I'm supposed to install every dependency manually.

What am I supposed to do to get a simple Ionic app running?

Thanks in advance.

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