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Aurelia vs NativeScript: What are the differences?

Developers describe Aurelia as "Next gen JS framework written with ES6 and ES7. Integrates with Web Components. No external dependencies except polyfills". Aurelia is a next generation JavaScript client framework that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity. On the other hand, NativeScript is detailed as "Build truly native apps with JavaScript". NativeScript enables developers to build native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Universal while sharing the application code across the platforms. When building the application UI, developers use our libraries, which abstract the differences between the native platforms.

Aurelia and NativeScript are primarily classified as "Javascript MVC Frameworks" and "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Aurelia are:

  • Two-Way Databinding
  • Routing & UI Composition
  • Extensible HTML

On the other hand, NativeScript provides the following key features:

  • 100% Access to Native Platform API
  • NativeScript is free of charge as an open source project
  • Code with JavaScript. Style with CSS

"Simple with conventions" is the top reason why over 38 developers like Aurelia, while over 55 developers mention "Access to the entire native api" as the leading cause for choosing NativeScript.

Aurelia and NativeScript are both open source tools. NativeScript with 17.2K GitHub stars and 1.28K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Aurelia with 11.1K GitHub stars and 665 GitHub forks.

Work Box, Zege Technologies, and GeekyAnts are some of the popular companies that use NativeScript, whereas Aurelia is used by NOD studios, Strengthen, and SupplyPike. NativeScript has a broader approval, being mentioned in 9 company stacks & 26 developers stacks; compared to Aurelia, which is listed in 17 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Pros of Aurelia
Pros of NativeScript
  • 47
    Simple with conventions
  • 42
    Modern architecture
  • 39
    Makes sense and is mostly javascript not framework
  • 31
    Extensible
  • 28
    Integrates well with other components
  • 27
    Easy to use
  • 25
    Dependency Injection
  • 22
    Modular
  • 20
    Great router
  • 16
    Adaptive Data Binding
  • 13
    Typescript, ES2015, ES2016
  • 11
    IoC, Modularity, Simplicity, Full Stack
  • 9
    Good binding system
  • 9
    Based on ES7
  • 6
    Testable
  • 6
    Convention based
  • 5
    Quick to develop
  • 4
    Solid Documentation
  • 4
    Evolving standards compliance
  • 4
    Smooth learning curve
  • 4
    Outstanding Support (paid)
  • 1
    Reactive binding system
  • 1
    TypeScript
  • 75
    Access to the entire native api
  • 47
    Support for native ios and android libraries
  • 46
    Support for javascript libraries
  • 46
    Angular 2.0 support
  • 44
    Native ux and performance
  • 37
    Typescript support
  • 35
    Backed up by google and telerik
  • 29
    Css support
  • 27
    Cross-platform declarative ui and code
  • 25
    Fully open source under apache 2.0 license
  • 11
    Vuejs support
  • 9
    60fps performance
  • 6
    Powerful data visualization with native UI
  • 5
    VS Code integration
  • 5
    Angular, typescript and javascript support
  • 5
    No need for Mac to build iOS apps in Telerik Platform
  • 4
    Extended CLI support
  • 4
    Cloud builds as part of Telerik PLatform
  • 4
    Truly Object-Oriented with Typescript
  • 4
    On-device debugging
  • 4
    Extensibility
  • 3
    Access to entire native api
  • 3
    Live reload
  • 3
    Easiest of all other frameworks
  • 3
    Easy to learn
  • 3
    Backed by google
  • 3
    0 day support for new OS updates
  • 3
    Publishing modules to NPM
  • 2
    Vue.js support out of the box
  • 2
    VueJS support
  • 2
    Svelte support
  • 2
    Powerfull mobile services as part of Telerik Platform
  • 2
    Native ui with angular
  • 2
    Vue support
  • 1
    Playground
  • 1
    Hot Reload
  • 1
    HMR via webpack
  • 1
    Very small app size
  • 1
    Write once, use anywhere
  • 1
    Easy to use, support for almost all npm packages
  • 1
    Rich ecosystem
  • 1
    Compile to Apple/Google Stores via CloudCompiler
  • 1
    Has CSS ;-)
  • 1
    It works with Angular
  • 1
    Code reuse with your website
  • 0
    Dart

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Cons of Aurelia
Cons of NativeScript
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    • 5
      Lack of promotion
    • 1
      Slower Performance compared to competitors

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    What is Aurelia?

    Aurelia is a next generation JavaScript client framework that leverages simple conventions to empower your creativity.

    What is NativeScript?

    NativeScript enables developers to build native apps for iOS, Android and Windows Universal while sharing the application code across the platforms. When building the application UI, developers use our libraries, which abstract the differences between the native platforms.

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    What are some alternatives to Aurelia and NativeScript?
    Angular
    It is a TypeScript-based open-source web application framework. It is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.
    React
    Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
    AngularJS
    AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
    Svelte
    If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.
    Blazor
    Blazor is a .NET web framework that runs in any browser. You author Blazor apps using C#/Razor and HTML.
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