NS:IDE is the NativeScript IDE that lets you get 'inside' your device.
Access any native functionality at run-time by calling a Javascript API that binds to the Obj-C (iOS) or Java (Android) run-time.
- Made in NativeScript
- Syntax highlighting
- Very dangerous auto-complete functionality based on
eval()
- Access to the whole native run-time, fully documented on nativescript.org for both iOS and Android (see note below)
- Potential to introduce TypeScript, if a contributor is feeling brave, or at least TypeScript's auto-completion (NativeScript is fully-typed!)
NOTE: I haven't yet implemented Android support because I lack the expertise to produce a syntax highlighter component for it, but it's perfectly possible in future.
See my teaser tweet for a video demo.
This project assumes the following folder hierarchy:
.
├── nside
└── nativescript-syntax-highlighter
Where nside
is this git repository, and nativescript-syntax-highlighter
is the git repository of my NativeScript Syntax Highlighter plugin. That is to say, they are expected to be siblings.
I haven't published it to npm, so you'll have to clone it from here:
git clone [email protected]:shirakaba/nativescript-syntax-highlighter.git
In the root directory for this project (nside
), run this command:
npm install
And then maybe make yourself one of these: ☕️
To run for iOS (Android is not supported yet):
# This is shorthand for "prepare, build and deploy".
tns run ios
And now maybe make yourself one of these: 🍵
Full documentation for tns run ios
here. Useful flags to pass:
--hmr
: activates hot module reloading (I highly recommend it).--clean
: forces a complete rebuild. Useful if you run into caching problems.--emulator
: instructs NativeScript to run the app in the iOS Simulator even if you have your device connected.
The NativeScript libraries are Apache-licensed (NativeScript-Licence.txt
), whereas this project itself use a GPL 3 licence LICENCE.txt
.
- LinguaBrowse (iOS) on the App Store – made in Swift
- LinguaBrowse (macOS) on the App Store – made in React Native + TypeScript + Swift
- Plucky Box (iOS) on the App Store, GitHub, expo.io as Android/iOS – made in React Native + TypeScript
- @LinguaBrowse – my Twitter account. I talk about NativeScript, React Native, TypeScript, Chinese, Japanese, and my apps on there.