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<\/figure>For those who upgraded to 5.0.0 last month, it was a bit of a rough ride. A lot of cool features but a lot of weird corner case broken items. Fortunately since that point, they have released a several 5.0.x point releases which fixed several of the larger flaws. 5.1.0 actually fixes several of the non-critical smaller flaws and adds some cool new features... So if you were waiting to jump on the 5.x bandwagon, this should be the stable release you are waiting for!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
The quick list of some of the new features in 5.1<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Core Modules<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Enable modal dialog chaining in IOS <\/strong>- this allows you to have another dialog follow the first; anyone who has tried this in the past; know this was always a pain on iOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n isScrollEnabled<\/strong> - This allows you to disable scrolling in the scrollbar component.<\/p>\n\n\n\n androidSwipeEnabled<\/strong> - Allows you to disable swiping in the Android tabview control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can use the arrow keys to select an option, in this screen shot; the \"Plain JavaScript\" is chosen and so it is highlighted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Android AAB (Android App Bundle); support added!<\/p>\n\n\n\n New package.json flag; suppressCallJSMethodExceptions<\/strong>: true\/false - enables suppression of the boolean errors when calling a native function. This could happen and crash the app. Now you can suppress them. (see http:\/\/fluentreports.com\/blog\/?p=581<\/a> for more information) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Java 8 Static method support on interfaces<\/strong>; allows NativeScript to call these Static functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n extends<\/strong> should now work against standard javascript classes (i.e. non native Android classes); so that you can now do <\/p>\n\n\n\n CStrings are a bit more resilient when passing to a function that wants them as a pointer to read and possibly write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Updated JavaScript engine to JSC 12.0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Several bugs when using hmr are fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yarn Support<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adding lots more Analytics\/Tracking (Don't forget to disable this for your privacy: tns usage-reporting disable && tns error-reporting disable<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get updated; you first need to do: That will get you the latest version of NativeScript CLI; once you have it; do a \"tns --version\" and verify it prints out \"5.1.x\". Then do a \"tns doctor<\/strong>\" to verify your environment is up to date and has all the newest support tools you need for a successful build. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To update a project; you need to do the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Latest Runtimes: Latest Core modules: To install Webpack & HMR support: To install latest NativeScript Angular plugin The addition of all the additional analytics\/tracking to the CLI reminded me; you can disable it permanently; if you value your privacy by doing: For those who upgraded to 5.0.0 last month, it was a bit of a rough ride. A lot of cool features but a lot of weird corner case broken items. Fortunately since that point, they have released a several 5.0.x point releases which fixed several of the larger flaws. 5.1.0 actually fixes several of the… Continue reading NativeScript 5.1.0 Released<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[16,60],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-javascript","category-nativescript","tag-nativescript","tag-upgrade","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fluentreports.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fluentreports.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fluentreports.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fluentreports.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fluentreports.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fluentreports.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"http:\/\/fluentreports.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fluentreports.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fluentreports.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fluentreports.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Android<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
class MyVue extends Vue {}; class blahComp extends MyView {};<\/code> and it will work properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\niOS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
CLI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nUpdating NativeScript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
npm i -g nativescript@latest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
tns platform remove android && tns platform add android@latest<\/strong>
tns platform remove ios && tns platform add ios@latest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
npm r tns-core-modules --save<\/strong>
npm i tns-core-modules@latest --save<\/strong>
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npm i nativescript-dev-webpack@latest --save-dev<\/strong>
Note: you need to have nativescript-dev-webpack as a development dependency for HMR to work.
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npm i nativescript-angular@latest --save<\/strong>
You will then need to install the actual angular bits; which as of this post v6 is currently supported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
tns usage-reporting disable && tns error-reporting disable<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nKnown issues<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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