This Week in NativeScript - June 27th, 2016

The big news this week is probably the new PluralSight course from Alex Ziskind.- but it was far from the only exciting content! Have you contributed to NativeScript this week and aren’t on this list? Tell us in the comments and we’ll add you.

Links

• The Ultimate Guide For Building RTA Part 2
  Part 2 of Jonathan Casarrubias’s comprehensive guide to building real-time applications with Angular 2, NativeScript, and Mongo DB.
• Don’t Touch Things In /platform/
  Chris Flannagan talks about best practices when managing the platform/ folder in NativeScript apps.
• Virtual Insanity with NativeScript Views and Angular 2
  Nathan Walker shares an experimental project that translates NativeScript views for the web within Angular 2 allowing 1 view for web and native mobile.
• Digitally Transform Sitefinity Sites into Mobile Apps with NativeScript
  Peter Filipov shows how easy it is to create a native mobile app using NativeScript that is powered by Sitefinity web services.
• Building NativeScript Apps with React
  Chris Geirman wants to see React in NativeScript and wants to know if others do as well.

Training

• Building Cross Platform Native Mobile Applications with NativeScript
  Alex Ziskind released the first NativeScript Pluralsight course. Congrats! 🎉

• Native Mobile Apps in JavaScript with Angular 2
  A one day workshop by Nic Raboy being offered as part of the Code Stars Summit in San Jose this September.

Plugins

• NativeScript Splashscreen Plugin
  Osei Fortune released an initial version of a plugin designed to help you make beautiful splash screens for your NativeScript apps.
• NativeScript Bitmap Plugin
  Marcel Kloubert released a new bitmap factory plugin.
• NativeScript Enumerable
  Marcel Kloubert also added TypeScript support to his enumerable plugin.

NativeScript Snacks

• Assigning Child Component Elements To Parent GridLayout
  Don Burgess shows how child components can't be assigned to GridLayous, but the child component's elements can be
• A SegmentedBar with NativeScript and Angular 2
  Osei Fortune shows how to programmatically create a SegmentedBar control with NativeScript & Angular 2.

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