I know the professional advise is to hold off developing with Ionic 2 until a stable version is released, but please consider the following scenario:
I will be developing an app for a client over the next 6 months (part time). Even though I did some Ionic 1 tutorials - coming from a java android background, the latest Ionic 2 seems far more intuitive to me.
The app will have login, quite a few forms, and write/read data to a DB - nothing more fancy than that. Also, I will be getting a regular 'app maintenance fee' after the 6 month period - so I can update the app as the situation requires.
It seems to me that I wouldn't be taken too great a risk developing in Ionic 2 in this situation. I would love to hear people's thoughts on that.