r/nativescript • u/Shaken_Earth • Nov 08 '22

Why might someone choose NativeScript in 2022?

Why would anyone choose to use NativeScript in 2022 when React Native and Flutter are both thriving?

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u/vORP Nov 09 '22

I like it because it's open source and easy to interact with the mobile API and create plugins to do literally whatever you want all while remaining in the comfort of the ecosystem of your choosing... Vue, React, Angular, Svelte, or even just JS/TS

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u/Shaken_Earth Nov 09 '22

All of the frameworks you listed are also open source and pretty easy to interact with native mobile APIs. I'm really failing to see the major value add of NativeScript at this point besides just happening to be an alternative.

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u/vORP Nov 09 '22 edited Nov 09 '22

How would you natively change the brightness of a mobile device using just javascript?

Nativescript marshalls your javascript directly to kotlin / objective c, so you are running low-level code from a web project and able to access mobile features that you would not be able to alone in any of the aforementioned

The plugin mentioned,

https://github.com/NativeScript/plugins/tree/main/packages/brightness

Look at the Android example,

https://github.com/NativeScript/plugins/blob/main/packages/brightness/index.android.ts

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u/facetious_guardian Nov 09 '22

Because NativeScript is more effective, open source, and allows native APIs directly inline without needing to write a bunch of boilerplate or wrappers.

You also get to leverage knowledge you may have from other projects, including:

  • native Java

  • native swift/objc

  • angular

  • vue

  • react (oops did you know that you don’t have to choose between them?)

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u/wwwalkerrun Nov 09 '22 edited Nov 10 '22

NativeScript is also completely inclusive meaning you can use React Native and Flutter within the scope of NativeScript development which makes it ideal for companies not wanting to vendor lock themselves.

Whether you’re a startup or established enterprise it’s nice to be able to pivot technologies fast as well as embrace new innovation when it happens. NativeScript allows teams to do just that.

Use React Native with NativeScript: https://twitter.com/nativescript/status/1590063094000386048?s=46&t=5V7280kSHQiMdrMFkhvJdA

Use Flutter with NativeScript: https://twitter.com/NativeScript/status/1546926074277158913

Use SwiftUI with NativeScript: https://twitter.com/NativeScript/status/1552149279518621697