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"Cooking with Jen!"

Jen Looper

Developer Advocate at Progress

@jenlooper

NativeScript is…

an open source framework for building truly native mobile apps with JavaScript. Use web skills, like TypeScript, Angular and CSS, and get native UI and performance on iOS and Android.

npm downloads of the "nativescript" package

NativeScript is the best tool for cross-platform native app development 🎉

5 reasons

1

Rich, animated, “no compromise” native UI

(with shared UI code)

Search for

“Examples NativeScript”

in the iOS App Store or Google Play to try this app out for yourself.

2

Maximum code and skill reusability 

Architecture Choices

Ease of doing native-y things

3

NativeScript modules

NativeScript modules for UIs

NativeScript Plugins Hub

Reuse existing native Android and iOS libraries

Vibrant and growing community 💖

4

NativeScript community forum (discourse.nativescript.org)

NativeScript community Slack channel

Supported by a major software company vested in your success 👨‍💼👩‍💼

5

Enough blabber. Let's build something!

Tools

Useful links

Eddy's Firebase plugin:

https://github.com/eddyverbruggen/nativescript-plugin-firebase

The Plugins Hub: https://discourse.nativescript.org

Our forum: https://discourse.nativescript.org

Firebase: http://firebase.google.com

NativeScript: http://www.nativescript.org

Nathan Walker's Advanced Seed: https://github.com/NathanWalker/angular-seed-advanced

Jen, TJ and Tara's 'AMPS' project (stripped-down seed): https://github.com/jlooper/angular-starter

QuickNoms for the web: http://www.quicknoms.com & http://www.github.com/jlooper/quicknoms

QuickNoms mobile app: http://www.github.com/jlooper/quicknoms-app

PocketRave: http://www.pocketrave.me & http://www.github.com/jlooper/pocketrave