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NativeScript vs Weex: 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; Weex: A framework for building Mobile cross-platform UI. Weex renders code in native widgets in Android & iOS and helps preserve the quality of user experience on critical platforms.
NativeScript belongs to "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" category of the tech stack, while Weex can be primarily classified under "Mobile UI Frameworks".
NativeScript and Weex are both open source tools. It seems that Weex with 17.5K GitHub stars and 2.16K forks on GitHub has more adoption than NativeScript with 17.2K GitHub stars and 1.28K GitHub forks.
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Pros of NativeScript
- Access to the entire native api75
- Support for native ios and android libraries47
- Support for javascript libraries46
- Angular 2.0 support46
- Native ux and performance44
- Typescript support37
- Backed up by google and telerik35
- Css support29
- Cross-platform declarative ui and code27
- Fully open source under apache 2.0 license25
- Vuejs support11
- 60fps performance9
- Powerful data visualization with native UI6
- VS Code integration5
- Angular, typescript and javascript support5
- No need for Mac to build iOS apps in Telerik Platform5
- Extended CLI support4
- Cloud builds as part of Telerik PLatform4
- Truly Object-Oriented with Typescript4
- On-device debugging4
- Extensibility4
- Access to entire native api3
- Live reload3
- Easiest of all other frameworks3
- Easy to learn3
- Backed by google3
- 0 day support for new OS updates3
- Publishing modules to NPM3
- Vue.js support out of the box2
- VueJS support2
- Svelte support2
- Powerfull mobile services as part of Telerik Platform2
- Native ui with angular2
- Vue support2
- Playground1
- Hot Reload1
- HMR via webpack1
- Very small app size1
- Write once, use anywhere1
- Easy to use, support for almost all npm packages1
- Rich ecosystem1
- Compile to Apple/Google Stores via CloudCompiler1
- Has CSS ;-)1
- It works with Angular1
- Code reuse with your website1
- Dart0
Pros of Weex
- Backed by Apache and Alibaba2
- Hot reload2
- Cross platform1
- Web platform capable1
- VueJS based1
- Almost "batteries included"1
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Cons of NativeScript
Cons of Weex
Cons of NativeScript
- Lack of promotion5
- Slower Performance compared to competitors1
Cons of Weex
- Small support community1
- Los od docs written only in Chinesse1
- Lot of docs written only in Chinesse1
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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 Weex?
Weex renders code in native widgets in Android & iOS and helps preserve the quality of user experience on critical platforms.
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What are some alternatives to NativeScript and Weex?
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.