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I hope its not too late for me to get locked into a platform with an unclear pricing model. I love mid-project curveballs!

"Ionic is currently in alpha testing and is free during that period. We will announce billing information and pricing plans in the coming months as the service matures."

I guess the adage applies -> If you have to ask the price, you probably can't afford it.

http://docs.ionic.io/overview/billing/

Given that its built on open source, it would be hard for you to be locked into something.

More likely is that they'll offer support contracts, a pay for IDE and build services. Which if you are making money with your Apps then it provides assurance to you to pay for those things.

The Ionic framework is open source but my understanding is that this is similar to Parse, an API/DB service.

Ionic is stable yet? Last time I tried it, I could get the default generated app up and running on my browser but not on the emulator or the phone.

Its pretty stable and very easy to use if you are good with AngularJS .. little bit of confusion around cordova plugins integration but easy to figure out .. Recently I have developed and app built on Ionic and it works perfectly -- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lowendapp.... .. also its been mentioned on ionic website

It's great to hear that. I got real excited when I first saw it launch on my browser. It felt like Bootstrap for mobile app development.

Looks like I figured out what went wrong before and got it running on my emulator and my phone now. Gonna try building something on it.

That is not quite true - there are huge breaking changes that are happening quite rapidly with Ionic, especially if you're stuck on head of master due to 1.3 support & other performance issues that force you onto head of master. There's also a steep curve with navigating some of the pitfalls surrounding Ionic if one isn't careful - so much so that multiple excellent developers I've spoken to have decided to fork Ionic & consume the fork along with patches, since they don't seem to consider merging PRs much from the community.

I'd say that unless you have some very talented developers and you aren't having to worry about cross-browser issues & commit to exclusively mobile apps, avoid Ionic. There are many pitfalls when you deviate from opinionated conventions, and they can be quite painful to figure out. I spent an hour earlier today trying to figure out an issue where registering a new user was broken due to the new Ionic view caching mechanism - this is quite painful.

I would highly recommend waiting for Ionic to hit 1.0 formally before even considering using it to anyone who is still deciding - you'd be better off probably going with Angular Material instead currently. I don't normally advocate staying away from a pre 1.0 release, but with Ionic, I think the warning is well earned - this is also coming from someone on a team where Ionic fit our use case almost perfectly, but were bitten hard when we had to do desktop support along with mobile & various other issues from our design not matching up with how Ionic built things.

This is epic, I don't think Ionic has publicized these docs for their upcoming platform yet.

Good to have a document

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