Also recommend to everyone who needs Cordova to look at AppGyver Steroids[1]. It's truly hybrid framework, though, still under active development. For example, Steroids has layers system, which basically consist of WebViews, but all transitions is native and Steroids gives you native controls such as NavigationBar and TabBar. I'm making an iOS app right now and I've got shared .styl, .jade templates and a bit of .js logic between web node.js and mobile app. From Ionic I use IonicIcons, and I love it.