NativeScript empowers you to access native APIs from JavaScript directly. Currently iOS, Android, and visionOS runtimes are provided for rich mobile development across a variety of diverse use cases.

To get started with NativeScript, follow these steps:

1. Install the NativeScript CLI globally:

   npm install -g nativescript

2. Create a new project:

   ns create my-app

3. Navigate into your project directory:

   cd my-app

4. Run your app on an emulator or device:

   ns run android

   or

   ns run ios

1. Setup your local development environment

2. Clone to contribute:

We love you and your pull requests 🤗. Please follow our contributing guide and see our code of governance to become as involved as you want to be.

• @nativescript/core Singular primitives offering an easy-to-use API surface for diverse iOS/visionOS/Android APIs implemented with NativeScript.
• @nativescript/types Types for both iOS/Android below wrapped up as a convenience. Most commonly used.
• @nativescript/types-ios Types for iOS.
• @nativescript/types-android Types for Android.
• @nativescript/types-minimal A very minimal set of types for only the latest Android and iOS sdks. Most commonly used to optimize Web-based IDE's which auto load all type declarations from node_modules.
• @nativescript/ui-mobile-base UI mobile base native classes used by core.
• @nativescript/webpack Webpack build utilities and configs used by NativeScript apps.

• NativeScript Home
• NativeScript Tutorials
• NativeScript documentation
• JavaScript starter: https://nativescript.new/javascript
• TypeScript starter: https://nativescript.new/typescript
• Angular starter: https://nativescript.new/angular
• React starter: https://nativescript.new/react
• Solid starter: https://nativescript.new/solid
• Svelte starter: https://nativescript.new/svelte
• Vue starter: https://nativescript.new/vue
• Vue 3 starter: https://nativescript.new/vue3
• NativeScript on Twitter
• NativeScript on Discord
• NativeScript on Stack Overflow

Outside the source centralized in this repo, NativeScript consists of a few other source repos. Here are the major ones:

• iOS and visionOS Runtime Empowers JavaScript code to be executed on iOS and visionOS devices written in a mix of C++, Objective-C, and Swift.
• Android Runtime Empowers JavaScript code to be executed on Android devices written in a mix of C++, Java and Kotlin.
• CLI Command-line interface empowering you to create, build, and run apps using NativeScript.
• Docs Documentation available at http://docs.nativescript.org/ written in Markdown.
• Plugins Various TSC managed plugins. Also a good reference is the plugin marketplace with several additional plugins.
• Firebase Modular Firebase 🔥 implementation for supported platforms.
• ML Kit Google's ML Kit SDKs for supported platforms.
• Payments In-App Purchase, Subscriptions, Google Pay and Apple Pay.
• Artwork Want to use our logo or colors? Feel free to use any of our ready-to-use media material.

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