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.

Contribute

Setup your local development environment
Clone to contribute:

$ git clone https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript.git
$ cd NativeScript

# setup workspace for development
$ npm run setup

# list all available commands to run
$ npm start

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/*

@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.

Other source repos

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.

Copyright notice

Copyright OpenJS Foundation and NativeScript contributors. All rights reserved. The OpenJS Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of the OpenJS Foundation, please see our Trademark Policy and Trademark List. Trademarks and logos not indicated on the list of OpenJS Foundation trademarks are trademarks™ or registered® trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

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