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NativeScript 5.3 only offers a smaller number of fixes and features than usual; but is still well worth upgrading to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most interesting update (for me) is actually the Android V8 engine has been upgraded yet again, but this time to a version that offers some nice performance benefits. It is always nice when an upgrade will increase the speed of your app with just a rebuild of it.
In addition some awesome work has been done on the iOS engine that should also result in a speed enhancement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So just upgrading the runtimes to 5.3 should give you a faster app...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Important Depreciation Notice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In version 5.2 short imports have been depreciated; I do not know when they will no longer actually work; but basically things like require(\"http\") are no long valid; you need to do require(\"tns-core-modules\/http\"). The primary reason for this is that webpacking requires the full path; and it has problems with short imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Core Modules <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The core modules offers the following enhancements and fixes...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resource ID on Android error fixed during Navigation
Webview and TabView fixes
Icons on Tabview and ActionBar should look better
View classes now have the missing .background* Style options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Android<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Upgrade to V8 7.3.492 - which offers
- Faster Await
- Faster JS Parsing
- Faster Spread Elements
- Embeddins supported in ia32 now
NativeScript Arm64 support built in on release versions
Static Binding Generator fixes and enhancements
Gradle 3.3.2 support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

iOS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lazy Evaluation - Performance
Many Debugger fixes
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CLI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

HMR is no longer considered Beta; almost all critical issues with HMR are now resolved.
Several debugger issues resolved<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Updating NativeScript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To get updated; you first need to do:
npm i -g nativescript@latest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That will get you the latest version of NativeScript CLI; once you have it; do a \"tns --version\" and verify it prints out \"5.3.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:
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

Latest Core modules:
npm r tns-core-modules --save<\/strong>
npm i tns-core-modules@latest --save<\/strong>
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To install Webpack & HMR support:
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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To install latest NativeScript Angular plugin
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

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:
tns usage-reporting disable && tns error-reporting disable<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Known issues<\/h2>\n\n\n\n