This Week in NativeScript—August 8th

It’s time for another This Week in NativeScript, your weekly collection of all things NativeScript from the NativeScript community. As always, if we missed your article, plugin, or link, let us know in the comments and we’ll get you on the list.

Links

• Using OAuth with NativeScript
  Alex Ziskind shows how to use his new NativeScript OAuth plugin.
• Create Your First NativeScript App
  Wernher-Bel Ancheta follows up his earlier Tuts+ article covering the basics of what NativeScript is with a tutorial showing how to create a basic note-taking app.
• Sharing Code Between Web and Native Apps
  Sebastian Witalec’s talk at this year’s AngularCamp Barcelona.
• NativeScript: Declarative UI not updating?
  Nathanael Anderson has a pair of articles this week. The first has a quick tip on one thing to try when your UI isn’t updating—restart your emulator.
• Introducing tns-template-plugin
  This article from Nathanael introduces a pretty awesome tool, a NativeScript plugin generator—definitely worth checking out!

Plugins

• NativeScript autocomplete plugin
  Osei Fortune released an initial version of a NativeScript autocomplete plugin.
• NativeScript PDFs
  A NativeScript implementation (currently only for iOS) of PSPDFKit, a PDF framework for iOS and Android, by Sean Perkins.
• nativescript-toolbox update
  Marcel J. Kloubert released version 1.33 of his NativeScript toolbox plugin with clipboard support, and a number of other helpful utility functions.
• NativeScript-hidden
  Nathanael Anderson’s plugin adds visiblity: hidden support for his Patron supporters.

Snacks

• Slider with TypeScript on propertyChange
  Brad Martin shares a code sample for how get the value of a slider on propertyChange.
• Get the Active Tab Index in a TabView
  Steve P and Nathan Walker share code for how to get the index of the current selected tab for use outside the TabView.
• Running the Latest NativeScript CLI from GitHub
  In this video, Alex Ziskind discusses how to grab the latest bits from the nativescript-cli repo on GitHub and run multiple versions of the CLI on your machine.

Stack Overflow update

George Edwards has been busy this week, jumping all the way to #4 for the last 30 days. Not much has changed on the all time leaderboard, but the competition is finally gaining ground on Nathanael - still a ways to go however.

http://stackoverflow.com/tags/nativescript/topusers