Upgrading Cordova Applications to NativeScript

An Introduction to NativeScript for Cordova Developers

Upgrading Cordova Applications to NativeScript

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Raymond Camden

DevRel for Auth0 Extend

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Tracy Lee | ladyleet

RxJS Core Team member and Google Developer Expert

The best NativeScript video content out there. NativeScripting’s courses are an amazing resource for getting started with NativeScript. Highly recommended.

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TJ VanToll

Principal Developer Advocate @ProgressSW

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Nic Raboy
Nic Raboy

The Polyglot Developer

As a previous Developer Advocate for Progress/Telerik, who makes NativeScript, I've no hesitation in saying that NativeScripting.com is the only place you need to learn NativeScript, from the masterful Alex. His teaching style is absolutely on point; comprehensive and concise enough to have you building real mobile applications, whilst giving you fundamental and advanced knowledge necessary to survive in the wild.

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Todd Motto

Creator @ UltimateAngular and Google Developer Expert for Angular

Alex, affectionately known as the Voice of NativeScript, produces high quality video content that effectively teaches the ins and outs of NativeScript, walking students through the complexities of building mobile apps. These videos teach both NativeScript with Angular and NativeScript Core, offering two great ways to build beautiful apps.

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Jen Looper

Lead Dev Advocate @Microsoft, Founder and CEO of Vue Vixens

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Burke Holland

DevRel at Microsoft

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Sebastian Witalec
Sebastian Witalec

Sr. Developer Advocate at Progress

Alex, thank you so much for creating this course. The architecture chapter alone is worth the price of the course, and saved me tons of time in the long run - time I would have spent reworking the solution over and over. Can’t wait for the next chapters.

David Wison
David Wison

Mobile Developer

Excellent as an introduction, easy to understand, totally useful, if you are a Vue developer, you should take this material to start with the right foot.

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Hernán Piña

JavaScript Developer

If you want to understand and master NativeScript, Alex’s NativeScripting course videos are the way to go. He is truly the ‘Voice of NativeScript’ as he can break down complex ideas in such a way that would help you accelerate your goal in building beautiful mobile applications. Highly recommend him and definitely worth your time and money!

Devlin Duldulao
Devlin Duldulao

Microsoft MVP

The introduction to NativeScript-Vue course is a fantastic foundation for learning how to both implement UIs using the Vue framework and also how to use the NativeScript toolsets, such as the CLI and the Sidekick app.

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About this course

Authors

Alex Ziskind

Trainer and Founder

Alex Ziskind

Alex lives in Washington, DC. He's a speaker, trainer, and a Telerik Developer Expert. He's been invloved in NativeScript projects since 2015 and has created courses for Pluralsight, LinkedIn, and Coursera.

Eddy Verbruggen

NativeScript Trainer

Eddy Verbruggen

Eddy has worked with Progress for many years. First raising the bar for Cordova plugin quality through the Verified Plugins Marketplace, and now focusing on creating and maintaining NativeScript plugins.

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    NativeScript Core
Beginner
42 lessons

What you'll learn

Hello, and welcome to Upgrading Cordova Applications to NativeScript here at NativeScripting. Eddy Verbruggen and I (Alex Ziskind) are looking forward to helping you understand the basic differences and similarities in working with Cordova and NativeScript, and provide an understanding of the architecture and how the core concepts of the two frameworks work together to build applications. Along the way, you’re going to be learning about things like how your Cordova skills translate and prepare you to build NativeScript applications, project-based code samples focusing on specific features including NativeScript UI components, common non-UI modules, and third party plugins. We'll start out with concepts, and then we'll take a closer look at data binding, modules, navigation, and services. Before beginning this course, you’ll want to make sure you’re already familiar with JavaScript. So if you’re ready to get started, Upgrading Cordova Applications to NativeScript is waiting for you. Thanks again for visiting us here at NativeScripting!

Curriculum

  • Introduction

    • 1
      Introduction (1:46)
    • 2
      Final Projects and Exercise Code (2:23)
    • 3
      What is Cordova? (1:50)
    • 4
      What is NativeScript? (2:04)
    • 5
      Other Native-Bound Frameworks (3:35)
    • 6
      Similarities (1:49)
    • 7
      Differences (3:59)
  • Tooling

    • 8
      Overview (1:08)
    • 9
      CLI (7:34)
    • 10
      Cloud Tools (5:21)
    • 11
      IDE (2:26)
    • 12
      App Templates: NPM packages (2:18)
    • 13
      App Templates: Sidekick and Playground (4:56)
  • Framework Features

    • 14
      Overview (0:42)
    • 15
      Plugins (4:55)
    • 16
      3rd Party JS Modules (3:35)
    • 17
      Debugging (2:45)
  • Project Structure

  • UI Conversion

    • 22
      Overview (1:13)
    • 23
      Cordova Project Survey (3:28)
    • 24
      NativeScript Project Kickoff (8:45)
    • 25
      ActionBar Intro (3:28)
    • 26
      Combining Layouts (5:54)
    • 27
      SegmentedBar Sorting (5:52)
    • 28
      Item List (10:55)
    • 29
      Adding CSS (6:49)
  • Navigating to the Details

    • 30
      Overview (0:46)
    • 31
      Details Page (3:32)
    • 32
      Converting Navigation (6:59)
    • 33
      Navigating Back (2:52)
    • 34
      CSS Animation (4:00)
  • Common Module Conversion

  • Plugin Conversion

    • 38
      Overview (0:56)
    • 39
      Replacing Internal Plugins (5:52)
    • 40
      Replacing External Plugins (9:08)
  • Final Words

    • 41
      Comparing Cordova and NativeScript Projects (2:54)
    • 42
      Resources (1:32)

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