What is NativeScript?
NativeScript enables developers to build native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Universal while sharing the application code across the platforms. When building the application UI, developers use our libraries, which abstract the differences between the native platforms.
NativeScript is a tool in the Cross-Platform Mobile Development category of a tech stack.
NativeScript is an open source tool with 23K GitHub stars and 1.7K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to NativeScript's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses NativeScript?
Companies
28 companies reportedly use NativeScript in their tech stacks, including FinTech Consortium, Beachy, and GeekyAnts.
Developers
499 developers on StackShare have stated that they use NativeScript.
NativeScript Integrations
iOS, Android OS, LokiJS, Tipe, and JScrambler are some of the popular tools that integrate with NativeScript. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with NativeScript.
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Decisions about NativeScript
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose NativeScript in their tech stack.
Lucas P
Hello,
We're just brainstorming for the moment and we have a few questions.
We have an idea for an app that we want to develop, here are the prerequisites:
1) cross-platform (iOS, Android, and website);
2) as easy to maintain as possible / well documented / widely used;
3) Visual Studio Code and Copilot compatible;
4) Text to speech;
5) Speech recognition;
6) Running in background (screen off with TTS and speech recognition);
7) could be using TypeScript;
8) Monetized through ad and in-App payment for premium version;
9) Display on lock screen (Android only I guess)
So what would you recommend?
I've been trying to review the options available, and I've considered:
NativeScript
React Native
Flutter
Any other?
Thanks in advance for your help, and I'm open to any comments.
NativeScript's Features
- 100% Access to Native Platform API
- NativeScript is free of charge as an open source project
- Code with JavaScript. Style with CSS
- Cross-platform UI abstractions
- Shared business logic and data models
NativeScript Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to NativeScript?
React Native
React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.
Ionic
Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript.
Xamarin
Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
Vue Native
Vue Native is a mobile framework to build truly native mobile app using Vue.js. Its is designed to connect React Native and Vue.js.
Vue Native is a wrapper around React Native APIs, which allows you to use Vue.js and compose rich mobile User Interface.
