NativeScript vs RIBs

Overview

NativeScript

Stacks533

Followers1.1K

Votes516

GitHub Stars25.3K

Forks1.7K

RIBs

Stacks37

Followers78

Votes0

GitHub Stars7.9K

Forks912

NativeScript vs RIBs: What are the differences?

Developers describe NativeScript as "Build truly native apps with JavaScript". 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. On the other hand, RIBs is detailed as "Build cross-platform apps that have similar architecture, enabling iOS and Android teams to cross-review business logic code (by Uber)". RIBs is the cross-platform architecture framework behind many mobile apps at Uber. The name RIBs is short for Router, Interactor and Builder, which are core components of this architecture. This framework is designed for mobile apps with a large number of engineers and nested states.

NativeScript and RIBs can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.

NativeScript and RIBs are both open source tools. NativeScript with 17.2K GitHub stars and 1.27K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than RIBs with 4.76K GitHub stars and 477 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

NativeScript	RIBs
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.	RIBs is the cross-platform architecture framework behind many mobile apps at Uber. The name RIBs is short for Router, Interactor and Builder, which are core components of this architecture. This framework is designed for mobile apps with a large number of engineers and nested states.
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	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 25.3K	GitHub Stars 7.9K
GitHub Forks 1.7K	GitHub Forks 912
Stacks 533	Stacks 37
Followers 1.1K	Followers 78
Votes 516	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 75 Access to the entire native api 47 Support for native ios and android libraries 46 Angular 2.0 support 46 Support for javascript libraries 44 Native ux and performance Cons 5 Lack of promotion 1 Slower Performance compared to competitors	No community feedback yet
Integrations
No integrations available	Android Studio Android SDK Cocoa Touch (iOS) Xcode IntelliJ IDEA

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