Tech trends are always changing, and with that, consumer expectations evolve as well. In the past year alone, the technology landscape has shifted immensely. As such, business leaders are faced with the challenge of either adapting to the new consumer expectations or falling behind. This is especially true in mobile. To meet both consumer demand and expectations, companies must develop for both mobile and web. Unfortunately for many, there are no easy ways to go about doing so. Developing for both platforms is complex, but with the right tools and framework, the process is a little easier.
How to be More Efficient When Developing
Progress NativeScript is a cross-platform framework and allows for true native apps to be built from a single code base, while still enabling the productivity advantages familiar to hybrid approaches.
Therefore, the developers only need to know one language to get true native performance and functionality across platforms. However, the language can be JavaScript, TypeScript, and in this case, Angular.
Angular 2, the full-platform successor to Google’s Angular 1 web application framework, is based on newer JavaScript standards, bringing a better, faster, more powerful framework to developers across the globe. Angular 2 has been developed and optimized for productivity and performance. It tends to work best in non-trivial applications – apps that have 10 or more views, or deal with a significant amount of data. But when used properly the framework allows for the deployment of the fastest, smallest applications across web and mobile environments.
NativeScript does not require Angular, but it’s more effective when used in tandem. In doing so you can fully reuse skills and code from the web to build beautiful, high performance native mobile apps without web views. One of Angular 2’s biggest architectural changes was decoupling the Angular framework form the DOM. While Angular 1 was limited to browser-based environments, Angular 2 opened the door for a number of different rendering possibilities, including NativeScript.
Together, the collaboration between NativeScript and Angular was created to provide an answer to the question above. Here are some tips to get the most out of Angular 2 and NativeScript:
Standardize on Angular 2 to Simplify – It’s One Less Thing to Learn.
When tasked with supporting multiple languages, it’s easy to understand the complexities involved, both in development and recruitment. Standardizing on Angular 2 allows for a consistent technical architecture to let developers solve common issues in standard ways, enabling employees be more efficient. There are plenty of Angular developers in the world, so it’s also easy to find talent when needed.
NativeScript supports Angular 2 and allows for true native performance on mobile applications – without having to learn multiple native languages. By using native components, the framework offers a native look, which give users the experience they both expect and demand.
When it comes to developing, think of how much work you’d have to do to build simple Android and iOS apps using traditional native development approaches. In the case of a button, you’d have to take multiple steps across Android and iOS to accomplish what you need to. But with NativeScript and Angular 2, you can build that same button in a few lines of code; write the code in JavaScript/TypeScript; place the button in an Angular 2 component; style that button with CSS; install JavaScript modules to help you out from npm; and at the end of the day, there is only one code base to maintain.
Using Angular 2 in NativeScript also opens up another possibility: the ability to share code between web and native apps. NativeScript code is just JavaScript, so long as that code isn’t tied to the DOM, there’s no reason that code can’t run in NativeScript.