Chapter 1. Introduction to NativeScript

In this chapter, we are going to introduce you to Telerik's NativeScript, and discuss how NativeScript is totally unique in the cross-platform mobile device market, and how it is radically revolutionary for mobile JavaScript development. We will also walk you through the prerequisites of how to install the NativeScript command-line tool. Once the NativeScript tool is installed, we will walk you through the basic usage of the tool and briefly describe the most common parameters. Finally, we wrap up the chapter by creating and running our first NativeScript application.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

• What is NativeScript?
• NativeScript and TypeScript
• Common modules
• Installing NativeScript
• The NativeScript command line
• Creating your first application