NativeScript is a widely popular open-source app development framework that is often used besides JavaScript by app developers. The framework allows you to develop high-performance mobile apps for multiple platforms including Android, iOS, and Windows. The ultimate reason behind the popularity of NativeScript is the ability of the framework in delivering a fully native user experience just because the framework makes use of the native OS rendering engines.
NativeScript basically comes with a package of solutions comprising a runtime, JavaScript VM, and a bridge module to connect the native user interface. Thanks to the JavaScript VM the code of JavaScript frameworks can easily be interpreted and executed. The bridge module on the other hand helps in connecting platform-specific APIs.
So, on the one hand, NativeScript allows building cross-platform apps with truly native user experience and app functionalities, and on the other hand, it easily interprets and executes JavaScript code and can work with JavaScript frameworks. This gives NativeScript a unique value proposition.
It has been seen that NativeScript is particularly effective when the framework is used alongside the AngularJS framework in mobile app projects. Let us first explain the NativeScript advantages and then let us explain the combined strength of NativeScript and AngularJS.
Key Advantages of NativeScript for Mobile App Projects
We have already explained that NativeScript offers some unique value propositions. Now let us explain these value offerings in the context of mobile app development projects.
Delivering Native User Experience
NativeScript is widely preferred by app developers for its capability to deliver a highly platform-specific user experience and app performance while keeping the UI design attributes of the respective OS platform.
On top of that, with NativeScript developers get a lot of customization options based upon different device screens.
Reusable code
NativeScript allows using a single codebase for building different platform-specific app versions across iOS, Android, and Windows. The same codebase of NativeScript is also reusable for web interfaces and desktop apps as well. The codebase can also be used by app projects involving different JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, Vue, React, or others.
Access to Native APIs
NativeScript allows smooth access to native APIs across iOS and Android platforms to help shape the native mobile user interface with platform-specific design attributes. On the other hand, the framework also allows using different plugins, templates, and APIs across app projects.
Manageable Learning Curve
As for the learning curve, mobile app developers can easily get along with NativeScript. The only thing that the programmers require for using NativeScript is knowledge of basic web development technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and Native UI markup.
Excellent Support and Community
NativeScript has been used in leading app projects including the app of NASDAQ: PRGS. The framework has also been extensively used alongside other JavaScript frameworks in many top enterprise app projects. The framework enjoys a great community support.
Explaining the combined strength of NativeScript and AngularJS for Mobile App projects
As we have already explained, NativeScript is a versatile framework that is used by many developers alongside AngularJS for mobile app projects. The combined strength of these two technologies has already been well known for different mobile app projects across the niches.
Since both Angular and NativeScript are platforms maintained by Google, they are nourished and are looked after to ensure that they can deliver a glitch-free app user experience.
In case you are already familiar with the AngularJS development, NativeScript will be the natural choice to develop mobile apps with superb native performance and look and feel. The two frameworks can help you with easy access to the APIs of native OS platforms just to build apps that look native and feel native.
The key value proposition that drives app projects to consider the combined power of these two frameworks is the ease of using a single codebase, relying on a single development skill set while building an app that can run on multiple platforms.
Why Angular is used by developers for NativeScript projects?
Now that you are convinced about the powerful features and capabilities of NativeScript, you can ask why Angular is preferred by developers to go along with NativeScript in app projects. Well, Angular has the following strengths.
Native App Performance
Angular goes well with NativeScript because it is a powerful framework with strong performance optimization attributes. While the NativeScript will help maintain platform-specific UI elements, the Angular steps in to strengthen app performance with strong JavaScript code.
Advanced Structure and Protocols
Angular comes with a robust set of features that modern apps need for developing high-quality apps with the least challenges for maintenance. By combining Angular into an app project along with NativeScript you can get the edge of several helpful concepts such as routing, dependency injection, and data binding, etc.
Reusable Codebase and Development Skills
While NativeScript in an app project allows reusing the codebase, Angular on the other hand by implementing the common and time-tested JavaScript paradigms ensures reusing the same set of development skills across multiple OS platforms.
Robust Angular Community
Angular is unarguably the most evolved JavaScript framework with a footprint across all sorts of app projects from diverse niches and device platforms. Today Angular boasts of one of the largest developer communities consisting of 1 million+ expert developers who are continuously providing support and ready-to-use components for others to use.
Conclusion
NativeScript is being worked upon by the Google developer team to do away with all the glitches and performance bottlenecks that prevent NativeScript from working smoothly. As Google developers are continuously making value additions and putting optimization efforts for these two technologies to work together, they are likely to emerge as the most sophisticated set of technologies for future mobile app projects.
