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Native apps with JavaScript? Give me a break. The only "Native" apps worth writing in JavaScript are web apps. Thank you coming out Nativescript - pack a lunch.
by Firegarden 12y ago
Native apps with JavaScript? Give me a break. The only "Native" apps worth writing in JavaScript are web apps. Thank you coming out Nativescript - pack a lunch.
- kin 12y agoCross-platform compatibility is a genuine problem and Nativescript attempts to solve it, just like Titanium, Ionic, and React JS (which is used in production for Facebook Groups). Write/learn once deploy anywhere is valuable to a lot of people. If you don't like it that's fine because there's no singular best solution and the tradeoffs don't appeal to you. But they at least deserve your respect for trying.
- pbreit 12y agoWhoever eventually delivers a viable offering will clean up in the corporate apps market. Companies have lower expectations for internal apps and don't want to hire Java and Swift developers to create each.
- wmf 12y agoBut if your expectations are low enough you can just use an HTML-based framework like Cordova.
- Iftheshoefits 12y agoCompanies who have such low expectations already have alternatives in the form of a WebView with extra bells and whistles, like cordova or any of the numerous JS-based native-but-not-really frameworks and libraries. This is just one more among many, many similar alternatives.
- readymade 12y agoNativeScript: The Framework for developers with low expectations!
- pjmlp 12y agoBig corporations doing off shore development with low expectations are already use the web view based solutions.