Create Performant Apps with Angular, Firebase & NativeScript

AKA

"Cooking with Jen!"

Jen Looper

Senior Developer Advocate at Progress

@jenlooper

Today's menu!

learn about NativeScript 🥗
scaffold a NativeScript app with Angular 🍲
discuss a real world use case: QuickNoms 🍰

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

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.

Maximum code and skill reusability

Architecture Choices

Ease of doing native-y things

NativeScript modules

NativeScript modules for UIs

NativeScript Plugins Hub

Reuse existing native Android and iOS libraries

Vibrant and growing community 💖

NativeScript community forum (forum.nativescript.org)

NativeScript community Slack channel

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

Enough blabber. Let's build something!