in order to harness more mobile-centric features and elements (e.g. touch gestures), bootstrap is to be gradually decomissioned and replaced with ionic framework instead:
test install ionic framework and see how borked the build gets
determine how best to gradually phase in ionic framework:
either by overriding the app render and building from there, or
working from the least integrated elements of the app inward
in order to harness more mobile-centric features and elements (e.g. touch gestures), bootstrap is to be gradually decomissioned and replaced with ionic framework instead:
use this issue as the mother branch