I've been using Ionic for about a month now. For the most part, it's a great tool to get something off the ground. I'm not positive if it'll hold up to our expectations of a native app yet, but I'm optimistic. I have had a few issues as well though. Most of it has to do with understanding the intended app structure. The documentation is getting better though.

For example, getting ion-side-menu to work was difficult for some reason. Looking at the documentation now, it shows that the directive is a child of ion-side-menus and a sibling of ion-side-menu-content. I'm not sure if that was always there, but I didn't notice it until now. The framework has been going through some change as well, so some of the examples out there are already outdated.

Regardless, I think Max and the guys at Drifty are doing great. And it's exciting to see a Madison getting mentioned in the development community. Nice work guys.

Edit: Ionic, not Angular