NativeScript: love or hate?
Aliaksei Bahachuk
Prehistory
Parents
WHO?
Telerik
Telerik
No money
Open Source - Now and Forever
NativeScript is licensed under the very permissive Apache 2 license.
Enterprise Support
Before the meeting
GitHub
7,363
556
GitHub
187
Version
Documentation - appearance
Met the NativeScript
No DOM
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No cross compilation
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Direct access to Native API
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Cross platforms
NativeScript runs on a pre packaged JavaScript virtual machine
WebKit JavaScript Core
Google V8
Cross platforms
You can choose
JavaScript
TypeScript
+ Angular2
UI thread
How does it work?
TODO:
How does it work?
TODO:
Native Layouts
Absolute
Dock
Grid
Stack
Wrap
Plug and Play
Use native libraries for each platform
Shared UI styles through CSS
Use JS libraries
Ideal
First surprise
Angular2 + NativeScript
Version: 0.2.1
Angular directives support is limited
Router / Form modules
First lie
Cross Platform
Hmmmmm...
First truth
UI thread only
I don't like your friends!
Npm modules with DOM or Node dependencies
No more girls!
Preprocessors
Anything else?
NS modules
Not all modules support both platforms
You need to write iOS and Android code
NS modules
And I can't cook...
Debugging: Node inspector
Sources
Console
Debugging 0
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No Source-Map
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No Network
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No Element Inspector
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No Performance
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The console logs are not colored
Debugging 0
VERY long reload time:
*Win 10
debugger ~ 20s
livesync ~ 50s
build ~ 3m
Debugging 0
VERY long reload time:
*Win 10
livesync: you can't add resources ~ rebuild + debug
livesync doesn't support debug ~ livesync + debug
Roadmap ...
Roadmap v2.2
Roadmap v2.3
But now...