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NativeScript vs Web Starter Kit: What are the differences?

NativeScript: 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; Web Starter Kit: Boilerplate & Tooling for Multi-Device Development. Web Starter Kit is a starting point for multi-screen web development. It encompasses opinionated recommendations on boilerplate and tooling for building an experience that works great across multiple devices. We help you stay productive and aligned with the best practices outlined in Google's Web Fundamentals.

NativeScript and Web Starter Kit can be categorized as "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools.

Some of the features offered by NativeScript are:

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

On the other hand, Web Starter Kit provides the following key features:

Multi-device responsive boilerplate
Living component style guide
Cross-device Synchronization

"Access to the entire native api" is the top reason why over 55 developers like NativeScript, while over 2 developers mention "Easy to use" as the leading cause for choosing Web Starter Kit.

NativeScript and Web Starter Kit are both open source tools. Web Starter Kit with 18.6K GitHub stars and 3.21K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than NativeScript with 17.2K GitHub stars and 1.27K GitHub forks.

Advice on NativeScript and Web Starter Kit

Lucas P

Jan 6, 2023 | 6 upvotes · 346.6K views

Needs advice

Flutter

NativeScript

and

React Native

Hello,

We're just brainstorming for the moment and we have a few questions.

We have an idea for an app that we want to develop, here are the prerequisites:

1) cross-platform (iOS, Android, and website);

2) as easy to maintain as possible / well documented / widely used;

3) Visual Studio Code and Copilot compatible;

4) Text to speech;

5) Speech recognition;

6) Running in background (screen off with TTS and speech recognition);

7) could be using TypeScript;

8) Monetized through ad and in-App payment for premium version;

9) Display on lock screen (Android only I guess)

So what would you recommend?

I've been trying to review the options available, and I've considered:

NativeScript
React Native
Flutter
Any other?

Thanks in advance for your help, and I'm open to any comments.

Replies (2)

Gabriel Alao

Lead Developer at The Web Gurus LLC · Jan 7, 2023 | 2 upvotes · 11.2K views

Recommends

Use Flutter and Firebase as a backend service, Firebase also helps to speed up the development and rollout of the app. The cloud-hosted NoSQL database provides a real-time database that helps you store and synchronize data between the clients. This indeed makes it easier for you to access the data using any of the devices.

Bebe Agachevo

Jun 21, 2023 | 1 upvotes · 2.5K views

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echo3D

Hi there, for cross-platform functionality in terms of 3D assets if any, echo3D can help you with that. It's 3D asset management on the cloud so you can write your references to the objects and update them in the echo3D web browser. echo3D is not yet on this platform but it will be soon!

Decisions about NativeScript and Web Starter Kit

Gabor Galazzo

CTO at momento. · Aug 23, 2021 | 9 upvotes · 176.2K views

Chose

over

As a startup, we need the maximum flexibility and the ability to reach our customers in a more suitable way. So a hybrid application approach is the best because it allows you to develop a cross-platform application in a unique codebase. The choice behind Ionic is Angular, I think that angular is the best framework to develop a complex application that needs a lot of service interaction, its modularity forces you (the developer) to write the code in the correct way, so it can be maintainable and reusable.

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Pros of NativeScript

Pros of Web Starter Kit

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

3
Easy to use

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Cons of NativeScript

Cons of Web Starter Kit

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 Web Starter Kit?

Web Starter Kit is a starting point for multi-screen web development. It encompasses opinionated recommendations on boilerplate and tooling for building an experience that works great across multiple devices. We help you stay productive and aligned with the best practices outlined in Google's Web Fundamentals.

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What are some alternatives to NativeScript and Web Starter Kit?

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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