
Native-what?
If you’re anything like myself before embarking on this project then you might wonder the same thing. Everyone has heard of
React Native, it’s a popular technology enabling a cross-platform mobile development experience, but not so many have crossed paths with
Nativescript, or {N}.
Nativescript is a framework with a similar goal to React Native, providing the ability to publish native apps for both major platforms, iOS and Android, whilst only maintaining a single (mostly) JavaScript codebase. It is available in three flavours: standard, Angular, and Vue.js, allowing developers with experience in the latter two frameworks to use their existing skills whilst building for mobile.
Put simply, it’s a
JavaScript runtime inside a native app, translating code on the fly into native elements. In this post, I’m going to tell you about a few of the nice experiences we’ve had recently developing with Nativescript, as well as a few of the not so nice issues that were encountered, and whether we’d use it again.
06 July, 2018
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