What I would like to achieve is this:
Surely, I went through the button documentation, but it seems nothing similar is there. So, I would appreciate some pointing in the right direction (codepen with a basic example would be most awesome).
So, ideally, this would be one button tag where I would be able to pass two variables (one which would appear on the left and one on the right). This does smell like a job for a Angular directive, though I haven't fiddled with it too much just yet so a friendly nudge in the right direction would be appreciated.
There is something similar to this in their documentation http://ionicframework.com/docs/components/#button-bar
<div class="button-bar">
<a class="button">First</a>
<a class="button">Second</a>
</div>