Chapter 8. Mobile App Development with NativeScript for Vue.js

Mobile app development with JavaScript in the past has been a bit underperforming, literally. Nothing against the early frameworks (the early 2010’s), but those frameworks like PhoneGap just took your mobile website, wrapped it with a native “wrapper”, and packaged it into an “app” (hybrid-app) and shipped it to the Apple AppStore or Google Play Store. Like jQuery, PhoneGap and the others had their time. They really brought the mobile development world within reach of front-end web developers across the world. Back in those days, a user could really tell the difference between a hybrid and a native app; one was glitchy with performance problems and the other was polished and performant. That all changed however when React Native joined the scene.

React Native is a first party framework created by Facebook that lets users who are familiar with React to build real native mobile applications...