NativeScript

NativeScript/NativeScript

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[NativeScript](http://www.nativescript.org) empowers you to access native APIs from JavaScript directly. Currently iOS, Android, and visionOS runtimes are provided for rich mobile development across a variety of diverse use cases.

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## Quick Start

To get started with NativeScript, follow these steps:

1.  **Install the NativeScript CLI globally:**
    ```bash
    npm install -g nativescript
    ```

2.  **Create a new project:**
    ```bash
    ns create my-app
    ```

3.  **Navigate into your project directory:**
    ```bash
    cd my-app
    ```

4.  **Run your app on an emulator or device:**
    ```bash
    ns run android
    ```
    or
    ```bash
    ns run ios
    ```

## Contribute

1. [Setup your local development environment](https://docs.nativescript.org/setup/)

2. Clone to contribute:

```bash
$ git clone https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript.git
$ cd NativeScript

# setup workspace for development
$ npm run setup

# list all available commands to run
$ npm start
```

We love you and your pull requests 🤗. Please follow our [contributing guide](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/blob/main/tools/notes/CONTRIBUTING.md) and see [our code of governance](https://github.com/NativeScript/management/blob/master/nativescript-governance.md) to become as involved as you want to be.

## @nativescript/*

- [@nativescript/core](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/tree/main/packages/core)
  Singular primitives offering an easy-to-use API surface for diverse iOS/visionOS/Android APIs implemented with NativeScript.
- [@nativescript/types](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/tree/main/packages/types)
  Types for both iOS/Android below wrapped up as a convenience. *Most commonly used.*
- [@nativescript/types-ios](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/tree/main/packages/types-ios)
  Types for iOS.
- [@nativescript/types-android](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/tree/main/packages/types-android)
  Types for Android.
- [@nativescript/types-minimal](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/tree/main/packages/types-minimal)
  A very minimal set of types for only the latest Android and iOS sdks. Most commonly used to optimize Web-based IDE's which auto load all type declarations from node_modules.
- [@nativescript/ui-mobile-base](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/tree/main/packages/ui-mobile-base)
  UI mobile base native classes used by core.
- [@nativescript/webpack](https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/tree/main/packages/webpack5)
  Webpack build utilities and configs used by NativeScript apps.

## Quick Links

- [NativeScript Home](https://nativescript.org)
- [NativeScript Tutorials](https://docs.nativescript.org/tutorials/)
- [NativeScript documentation](https://docs.nativescript.org/)
- JavaScript starter: https://nativescript.new/javascript
- TypeScript starter: https://nativescript.new/typescript
- Angular starter: https://nativescript.new/angular
- React starter: https://nativescript.new/react
- Solid starter: https://nativescript.new/solid
- Svelte starter: https://nativescript.new/svelte
- Vue starter: https://nativescript.new/vue
- Vue 3 starter: https://nativescript.new/vue3
- [NativeScript on Twitter](http://twitter.com/NativeScript)
- [NativeScript on Discord](https://nativescript.org/discord)
- [NativeScript on Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nativescript)

## Other source repos

Outside the source centralized in this repo, NativeScript consists of a few other source repos. Here are the major ones:

- [iOS and visionOS Runtime](https://github.com/NativeScript/ios)
	Empowers JavaScript code to be executed on iOS and visionOS devices written in a mix of C++, Objective-C, and Swift.
- [Android Runtime](https://github.com/NativeScript/android)
	Empowers JavaScript code to be executed on Android devices written in a mix of C++, Java and Kotlin.
- [CLI](https://github.com/NativeScript/nativescript-cli)
	Command-line interface empowering you to create, build, and run apps using NativeScript.
- [Docs](https://github.com/NativeScript/docs)
	Documentation available at <http://docs.nativescript.org/> written in Markdown.
- [Plugins](https://github.com/NativeScript/plugins)
  Various TSC managed plugins. Also a good reference is the [plugin marketplace](https://market.nativescript.org/) with several additional plugins.
- [Firebase](https://github.com/NativeScript/firebase)
  Modular Firebase 🔥 implementation for supported platforms.
- [ML Kit](https://github.com/NativeScript/mlkit)
  Google's [ML Kit SDKs for supported platforms](https://developers.google.com/ml-kit).
- [Payments](https://github.com/NativeScript/payments)
  In-App Purchase, Subscriptions, Google Pay and Apple Pay.
- [Artwork](https://github.com/NativeScript/artwork)
  Want to use our logo or colors? Feel free to use any of our ready-to-use media material.

## Copyright notice

Copyright [OpenJS Foundation](https://openjsf.org) and `NativeScript` contributors. All rights reserved. The [OpenJS Foundation](https://openjsf.org) has registered trademarks and uses trademarks.  For a list of trademarks of the [OpenJS Foundation](https://openjsf.org), please see our [Trademark Policy](https://trademark-policy.openjsf.org/) and [Trademark List](https://trademark-list.openjsf.org/).  Trademarks and logos not indicated on the [list of OpenJS Foundation trademarks](https://trademark-list.openjsf.org) are trademarks™ or registered® trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

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Repository info

Default branch: main
Latest version: 9.1.3-core
Created: 2015-03-01
Last activity: 2026-10-13
License: MIT
Open issues: 861
Watchers: 654

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