This Week in NativeScript—October 4th

After a brief hiatus for NativeScript Developer Day and Angular Connect, we’re back with another installment of This Week in NativeScript—your source for the latest and greatest from the NativeScript community 🚀

Links

• Create a Chat Interface With NativeScript
  A super comprehensive tutorial by Bruno D’Auria on how to create a complete chat interface using NativeScript and Angular 2.
• Move, shake and drop with NativeScript and Angular 2
  Jen Looper’s Angular Connect talk on building web and native apps from a single code base.
• Mobile apps? Trust no one except me Jeff Cross
  Jeff Cross’s Angular Connect session on choosing between your options for building mobile apps—including NativeScript, of course.
• Some quick NativeScript tips
  Raymond Camden provides a few quick tips on building apps with NativeScript.
• TypeScript PDX September Meetup: Off the Rails with NativeScript + Angular with Nathan Walker
  Nathan Walker with an epic two-and-a-half-hour long talk on NativeScript, Angular, RxJS, and a whole lot more.
• http://images.nativescript.rocks/
  A new utility from Nathanael Anderson for generating images, launch icons, and splash screens for your NativeScript apps.

Plugins

• NativeScript directions
  A fun plugin from Eddy Verbruggen for adding native directions to your iOS apps.
• NativeScript Core Motion
  A NativeScript plugin from Stephen Feather that wraps the iOS Core Motion APIs.
• NativeScript filter modules
  A really handy plugin from Marek Maszay that lets you remove NativeScript core modules from your application builds.

Stack Overflow update

A few new faces have joined the Stack Overflow leaderboard for the last month, but Nathanael, Nick Iliev, and Brad Martin continue to hold the top three places overall.

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

As always, let us know if we missed your link, let us know in the comments and we’ll add it to the list. And until next week, happy NativeScript-ing!