NativeScript

NativeScript empowers you to access native api's from JavaScript directly. The framework currently provides iOS and Android runtimes for rich mobile development and can be utilized in a number of diverse use cases.

Develop

# setup workspace for development
$ npm run setup
# list all available commands to run
$ npm start

Packages

• @nativescript/core
  • Core iOS/Android for NativeScript
• @nativescript/types
  • Types for both iOS/Android below wrapped up as a convenience. Most commonly used.
• @nativescript/types-ios
  • Types for iOS
• @nativescript/types-android
  • Types for Android
• @nativescript/ui-mobile-base
  • UI mobile base native classes used by core
• @nativescript/webpack
  • Webpack build utilities and configs used by NativeScript apps

Getting Started and Installation

Our Getting Started Guides are hands-on tutorials that walk you through installing NativeScript and building a real iOS and Android application.

• Get started with JavaScript
• Get started with TypeScript and Angular

Quick Links

• NativeScript home page
• Install NativeScript demo mobile app
• NativeScript playground
• NativeScript and Angular
• @NativeScript on Twitter
• NativeScript community Slack channel
• NativeScript on Stack Overflow
• NativeScript documentation
• NativeScript marketplace
• NativeScript roadmap

Repositories

Outside of the source centralized in this repo, the NativeScript framework consists of a number of components, all of which are open source and on GitHub. Here are the major ones:

• iOS runtime
  • This repo contains the NativeScript iOS runtime — the code that hosts NativeScript iOS apps, and allows JavaScript code to be executed on iOS devices. The iOS runtime is written in a fun mix of C++, Objective-C, and more.
• Android runtime
  • This repo contains the NativeScript Android — the code that hosts NativeScript Android apps, and allows JavaScript code to be executed on Android devices. The Android runtime is written in a fun mix of C++ and Java.
• CLI
  • This repo contains the NativeScript command-line interface, which lets you create, build, and run apps using the NativeScript framework. The CLI is written in TypeScript.
• Docs
  • This repo contains the NativeScript framework documentation, which is available at http://docs.nativescript.org/. The docs are written in Markdown.

In addition to the code that makes up the NativeScript framework itself, we also provide a number of open-source sample apps that you can reference while building your NativeScript application.

Contributing

We love PRs, and accept them for all of our repositories — even docs! Please follow our contribution guide if you want to become part of the project.