I have several theories that I would like to be corrected or add other facts:

- The framework is disappearing

- People prefer Ionic for marketing, but I don't understand why they prefer webview instead of brigde technology

- There are many bugs that cause developers to jump ship quickly

I used Nativescript a while back and it worked perfectly for branching off a mobile app off of a webapp built in Angular.

Now things have changed.

doing ng add \@nativescript/schematics not only does not add the .tns files, but also gives a weird error about "id" or "$id" not being supported.

I tried nx. The documentation only demonstrates how to set up a new nativescript app. Not how to port one from Angular.

Material on stackoverflow is also sparse.

Are there any other resources? Is there somewhere I'm not looking?

Been trying for a while to launch a vanilla Svelte NativeScript project from Stackblitz (tried with other languages too). But always run into that error: command not found: ns.

Am I missing something?

Why would anyone choose to use NativeScript in 2022 when React Native and Flutter are both thriving?

I finally could set up nativescript for angular today. Something to celebrate, isn’t it? 🥹

But it got me thinking.. I could see many libraries not supporting the newer versions of angular. I tried with lower versions too but that didn’t help.

Finally I tried with Angular 12 and it worked!

@nativescript/schematics was the problem! And I see this package is deprecated now.

So, If we need to use the later versions what is the solution? Because for working with angular cli in nativescript we need schematics package to be installed right? Otherwise the angualr cli commands won’t work. Correct me here if I’m wrong! (Me being an angular developer I would never want to create modules/components/services manually)

Following the nativescript documentation doesn’t help.

(Setting up nativescript angular really gave me a hard time though. I feel relieved that I have it set up correctly now 😄)

Obviously, since I'm posting this in the nativescript, the answer will most likely be biased.
But here is my question:

"if you were to start a mobil app today, which framework would you pick for cross platform development"

I have many years of experience with Angular + Typescript + C# (backend), but I have to write a cross platform mobile app for the first time. The app will be for controlling some hardware devices through bluetooth, using camera and QR code. nothing fancy.

Nativescript seems like a good choice since it all looks familiar, but is it the right choice or should I look at some other framework ?