Nativescript Angular Web Starter

A simple starter project to create native mobile and web apps with single shared code base using angular and nativescript.

Check this Open Souce Cross Platform Quotes Application for reference, which is made with the exact same architecture as this starter project.

Prerequisites

1. Globally installed Nativecript - npm install -g nativescript
2. Globally installed Angular CLI - npm install -g angular-cli
3. Mac OS to build iOS app.

Installation

1. git clone https://github.com/shripalsoni04/nativescript-angular-web-starter --depth=1
2. cd nativescript-angular-web-starter
3. npm run ngxp-install

Run Web application

npm start - This will start the application at http://localhost:4200.

Run iOS Application

npm run start.ios

Run Android Application

npm run start.android

Project Folder Structure

nativescript

This contains a nativescript project for creating Android/iOS applications.

tools

This contains scripts useful during development.

web

This contains nothing but a web project created using angular-cli.

x-shared

All the code/assets which are common to both web and nativescript projects resides here. This folder is symlinked to nativescript/app/x-shared and web/src/x-shared folder. So changes in x-shared folder from any of the three locations will get reflected in other two folders.

Commands

You can execute any valid command of angular-cli from web/ folder and any valid command of nativescript-cli from nativescript/ folder. For convenince below are the commands which you can execute from root directory.

Common

Command	Description
npm run ngxp-install	Installs dependencies of web and nativescript applications. Creates symlink of x-shared folder in both web and nativescript project.

Web Application

Command	Description
npm start	Starts web application at http://localhost:4200
npm run start.prod	Starts web application in production mode. Runs uglification and minification.
npm run start.aot	Performs AOT for web application templates and starts web application.
npm run start.aot.prod	Performs AOT, minification, uglification and starts web application.
npm run build	Builds the web application and copy the built project in web/dist folder.
npm run build.prod	Builds the web application in production mode and copy the built project in web/dist folder.
npm run build.aot	Performs AOT, build the project and then copy the built project in web/dist folder.
npm run build.aot.prod	Performs AOT, prepares production build and then copy the built project in web/dist folder.
npm test	Runs web application and x-shared unit test cases. It will not generate code coverage report.
npm run test-cc	Runs web application and x-shared unit test cases and generates code coverage report.

Nativescript Application

Command	Description
npm run start.ios	Runs application on iOS emulator/device
npm run start.android	Runs application on Android emulator/device

FAQ

How to change package/bundle id for Android/iOS apps?

To change the package/bundle id you need to do changes in below files.

1. nativescript/package.json

• Change id property of nativescript object as follows:

"nativescript": {
    "id": "com.domain.yourapp"
}

2. Open nativescript/app/App_Resources/Android/app.gradle file and change applicationId as shown below:

android {
  defaultConfig {
    ...
    applicationId = "com.domain.yourapp"
  }
  ...
}

How to change Android and iOS Application Display Name?

For Android, open nativescript/app/App_Resources/Android/values/strings.xml file and write your app name where Nativescript Angular Web Starter is written:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="app_name">Nativescript Angular Web Starter</string>
    <string name="title_activity_kimera">Nativescript Angular Web Starter</string>
</resources>

For iOS, open nativescript/app/App_Resources/iOS/info.plist file and change value of CFBundleDisplayName and CFBundleName to your app name:

<dict>
  ...
  <key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>
	<string>Nativescript Angular Web Starter</string>
  <key>CFBundleName</key>
	<string>NativescriptAngularWebStarter</string>
  ...
</dict>

How to use angular dependencies from common node_modules folder. (Not tested properly yet!)

Currently you can see that for web project, angular modules are there as dependencies in common package.json and at web/package.json. So currently to update version of angular modules for web project, you need to update version at both of these package.json files. To avoid this, you can add path mapping in web project's tsconfig.json file as shown below:

web/src/tsconfig.json

"paths": {
  "@angular/*": ["../../node_modules/@angular/*"]
}

Once you add above configuration, the web project will try to find the @angular pacakges from common node_modules folder.

Attributes

1. Angular Framework
2. Nativescript Framework
3. Nativescript Core Theme
4. nativescript-swiss-army-knife
5. tools/install.js from angular-advanced-seed

Awesome Contributors

Nathan Walker

Mathieu Brunot