Elm vs NativeScript
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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. | Writing HTML apps is super easy with elm-lang/html. Not only does it render extremely fast, it also quietly guides you towards well-architected code. |
100% Access to Native Platform API;NativeScript is free of charge as an open source project;Code with JavaScript. Style with CSS;Cross-platform UI abstractions;Shared business logic and data models | No Runtime Exceptions;
Fearless refactoring;
Understand anyone's code;
Fast and friendly feedback;
Enforced Semantic Versioning;
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Statistics | |
GitHub Stars 25.3K | GitHub Stars - |
GitHub Forks 1.7K | GitHub Forks - |
Stacks 533 | Stacks 758 |
Followers 1.1K | Followers 744 |
Votes 516 | Votes 319 |
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