preact-to-nativescript

This Library is experimental!

Documentation

Usage

The following is assumed to be executed at the project root of a NativeScript project

1. Install the library

npm i preact-to-nativescript

2. Adjust your NativeScript app.js

var application = require("application")
var preactToNativeScript = require("preact-to-nativescript")
var render = preactToNativeScript.render
var h = preactToNativeScript.Preact.h

application.start({
  create: () => {
    return render(h("page", {}, [h("actionBar", {title: "Custom Title"}), h("stackLayout", {}, [h("label", {text: "preact-to-nativescript page"}, [])])]))
  }
})

3. Run your NativeScript app

Demo Application

TBD

• dont ship own preact version
• Handle unmounting properly when navigating via Nativescripts API (custom routing in pure js works fine though!)
• ActionBar Known Limitations
  • SystemIcon is not respected
  • NavigationButton doesn't properly render
• Document and enable usage / registration of plugin components
• probably more that isn't in scope yet

Credits

• developit by providing this untested document implementation that turned into the core of this library. He also authored undom from which some document mock code was borrowed. And he also authored preact without which this wouldn't even be possible.
• staydecent for providing a code example that showed that preact-to-nativescript is not impossible wizardry but achievable by writing the right wrapper