This is directed at both your comment and the other reply to yours: Angular is a very very opinionated framework. To get as much benefit as possible from it, th

This is directed at both your comment and the other reply to yours: Angular is a very very opinionated framework. To get as much benefit as possible from it, there's not really an option to make a "universal" framework with Angular as an option. There are few other frameworks that actually use the same workflow as Angular. I think Ionic has chosen a smart path by building on top of Angular even if you just consider how Angular uses directives. Ionic has built a whole suite of custom mobile specific directives that are approaching native speed.