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Followers78

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NativeScript vs RIBs: What are the differences?

Developers describe NativeScript 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. On the other hand, RIBs is detailed as "Build cross-platform apps that have similar architecture, enabling iOS and Android teams to cross-review business logic code (by Uber)". RIBs is the cross-platform architecture framework behind many mobile apps at Uber. The name RIBs is short for Router, Interactor and Builder, which are core components of this architecture. This framework is designed for mobile apps with a large number of engineers and nested states.

NativeScript and RIBs can be primarily classified as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.

NativeScript and RIBs are both open source tools. NativeScript with 17.2K GitHub stars and 1.27K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than RIBs with 4.76K GitHub stars and 477 GitHub forks.

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Pros of NativeScript

Pros of RIBs

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
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Cons of NativeScript

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5
Lack of promotion
1
Slower Performance compared to competitors

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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.

What is RIBs?

RIBs is the cross-platform architecture framework behind many mobile apps at Uber. The name RIBs is short for Router, Interactor and Builder, which are core components of this architecture. This framework is designed for mobile apps with a large number of engineers and nested states.

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What are some alternatives to NativeScript and RIBs?

React Native

React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.

Ionic

Free and open source, Ionic offers a library of mobile and desktop-optimized HTML, CSS and JS components for building highly interactive apps. Use with Angular, React, Vue, or plain JavaScript.

Xamarin

Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

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.

Vue Native

Vue Native is a mobile framework to build truly native mobile app using Vue.js. Its is designed to connect React Native and Vue.js. Vue Native is a wrapper around React Native APIs, which allows you to use Vue.js and compose rich mobile User Interface.

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