This Week in NativeScript—July 26th

Welcome to another This Week in NativeScript, your weekly installment of links, videos, plugins, and more by the NativeScript community. As always, if we missed anything, make sure to add a comment so we can add it to the list.

Links

• Create A Mobile App From Your Angular 2 Web App With NativeScript
  Nic Raboy created this super comprehensive tutorial on how to convert an existing Angular 2 web app to use NativeScript. Highly recommend if you’re using Angular 2 on the web.
• jQuery Mobile versus NativeScript
  Mike Branstein talks about the differences between building with jQuery Mobile and building with NativeScript.
• Build Data Driven IOS & Android Apps With WordPress REST API & NativeScript – Part 1
  Chris Flannagan starts the conversation for how to build NativeScript apps using the WordPress RESTful API.
• NativeScript: WebPacking
  Nathanael Anderson provides some tips and tricks for getting the webpack plugin working to help compress your production NativeScript apps.

Events

• Developing Native Mobile Applications with Angular 2
  Nic Raboy is speaking on NativeScript and Angular today. If you’re near Durham, North Carolina check it out.
• HTML5 + JS Ciudad de México
  Alex Market is hosting a NativeScript and Meteor JS event in México City this Friday.

Plugins

• Pusher SDK
  Osei Fortune released a NativeScript plugin that wraps the Pusher SDK for Android.
• NativeScript Video Player
  Brad Martin added a number of new features to his video player plugin. Check it out!

Contributions

Did you know that the NativeScript documentation now has a number of issues marked as “up-for-grabs”? If not, now you do. These issues are a great place to get started contributing to NativeScript, and the documentation changes you make will benefit the entire NativeScript community.

• Troubleshooting tip for new files in App_Resources
  Brad Martin added a new troubleshooting tip when things go wrong adding new files to App_Resources. Thanks for the contribution Brad!

NativeScript Snacks

• Using Couchbase NoSQL In A NativeScript Angular 2 App
  Nic Raboy shows how to use the NativeScript Couchbase plugin to store data, and to sync that data across devices. Pretty cool stuff!

Stack Overflow Update

Lots of contributions from Osei Fortune and Brad Martin over the past month, but Nathanael Anderson continues his strong lead all time.

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

Thanks again to everyone in the NativeScript community for your contributions. You help keep NativeScript awesome 🚀