I did an Ionic/Angular project a few years back and it's a perfectly cromulent technology if stay within it's wheelhouse. If the app you're building could easily be a website, but the client wants an app store presence, this is by far the easiest way to get there. For delivering content-heavy screens that aren't a drag on CPU, it works fine. And it's also fine for layering in basic device functionality like location services.
If expectations and budget are low, it's a great option.
Thanks for teaching me a new word in “cromulent.” While we think Ionic is for more than just low-expectation apps (many brands and consumer apps use Ionic) we appreciate that it fills a need beyond that. Cheers!
Cromulent first appeared in the February 18, 1996 episode of The Simpsons called "Lisa the Iconoclast," in what could be considered a throw-away line given during the opening credits. The schoolchildren of Springfield are watching a film about the founding father of Springfield, Jebediah Springfield. The film ends with Jebediah intoning, “A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.” One teacher at the back of the room leans over to another and says that she’d never heard the word embiggen before she moved to Springfield. “I don't know why,” the other teacher replies. “It's a perfectly cromulent word.”
It's one of my favorite Simpsons quotes. Wonderful little bit of linguistic hackery.
They make up one word, embiggen, and just from the obvious root word of "big" it's clear what it means. Doubly so when taken in context, "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."
Then they make up a second word, cromulent, and the meaning can be entirely inferred from context. Embiggen is a perfectly cromulent word. Acceptable, adequate, maybe a bit unorthodox but "good enough".
And it's a pretty useful word. It's somewhere between "acceptable" and "plausible". It can kind of just mean whatever you need with a slight air of "I don't really know what I'm talking about, but don't worry it'll be fine."
I'm glad I can share the opposite experience. We developed a B2B app which featured a maps module and some fancy visualizations. It was well received and a pleasure to work on. No porting issues and the Android performance was fine with the webview plugin.
If expectations and budget are low, it's a great option.