NativeScript 3.0 Released

Some of you might have seen the all New version 3.0.0 has been released today.  This is a major release.   Lots of things changed under the hood.

Some of the new features

• Redesigned class system to increase the speed of your app.
• Better Debugging using Chrome Developer tools
• Lots of bugs fixed
• New CSS features

Upgrading (Core):

First of all to upgrade is done is a couple steps:
> npm install -g nativescript@latest
> npm install tns-core-modules@latest --save

Next try the new update command or you can manually run the commands below
> tns update

For Android:
> tns platform remove android
> tns platform add android@latest

For iOS
> tns platform remove ios
> tns platform add ios@latest

Then you can type tns info and verify that everything says 3.0.x

Common Issues:

1. Plugins fails; this is a known issue do to the complete revamp of the lower levels of the core modules design.  Some plugins need a lot of changes to work in 3.0; so you will have to wait for the third party authors to get caught up.   My plugins site  http://plugins.nativescript.rocks should be listing both version v2 & v3 plugins separately so that you can easily find 3.0 or 2.0 plugins shortly.
2. TypeScript incompatibilities; you should be using 2.2 or later with v3.0 of TNS