Recap of first week of June 2020 with NativeScript
Now that NativeScript is truly community driven let's recap what this new era looks like in the scope of 1 week
Now that NativeScript is truly community driven let's recap what this new era looks like in the scope of 1 week. The core team has been focusing on merging and releasing long-standing pull requests, updating project templates to latest configurations and fixing some subtle bugs in core modules which have existed for a long time. This is a glimpse at how NativeScript has progressed in just the first week of June 2020 since the transition:
CLI
- Node 14 support NativeScript/nativescript-cli#5316
- Chrome debug url correction for latest Chrome releases NativeScript/nativescript-cli#5319
- Allow modifying gradlew args in hooks NativeScript/nativescript-cli#5301
- Update
--tsctypescript template to use @nativescript scoped package NativeScript/nativescript-app-templates#159 - Update
--ngtemplate to use latest Ivy enabled project configurations NativeScript/nativescript-app-templates#158 - Clean up Vue templates, fix navigation issues by community contribution NativeScript/nativescript-app-templates#81276d3, NativeScript/nativescript-app-templates#155, NativeScript/nativescript-app-templates#156
Core
- iOS dialog view controller handling with nested/overlapping view controllers NativeScript/NativeScript#8609
- Merged community contribution: NativeScript/NativeScript#8618
- Merged community contribution: NativeScript/NativeScript#8280
- Merged community contribution: NativeScript/NativeScript#8257 (Addresses issue originally posted about in 2017! NativeScript/NativeScript#4795)
- Merged community contribution: NativeScript/NativeScript#8617
Plugins
- worker-loader (fix crashing Worker when using recursive worker files): NativeScript/worker-loader#59
Angular
- Angular 9 Ivy support NativeScript/nativescript-angular#2169
- Async APP_INITIALIZER support NativeScript/nativescript-angular#2170
- Sugar for easy launch animation screen creations NativeScript/nativescript-angular#2170
- Merged community contribution: NativeScript/nativescript-angular#2128
- Merged community contribution: NativeScript/nativescript-angular#2062
And we're really just getting warmed up at this point.
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Did we say community driven? Yes
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The roadmap for 7.0 and beyond will be updated by Friday, June 12th, this week. We hope everyone is doing well out there!