This is the huge problem for me also. My app is going to be a mobile app, but I will also like to use it as an simple web page. So why did Ionic team take that out? I've found some Angular2 ionic2 examples, but they didn't really work.
So for example, I cannot give someone direct link to an article I've just read?
mypage/#/details/articleId
But they will always have to navigate. And if we're building complex apps, this can get really really messy.