Option for native potential

[NathanWalker]

@jeffbcross I regret not tracking ya' at ngConf, really wanted to chat a couple options with you and this toolkit, which I love. Great job on the presentation btw.

The gist of what I wanted to run by you is the possibility of a --native flag in addition to --mobile flag which could generate a NativeScript shell (or even ReactNative, whichever user prefers). I could certainly help provide a PR over next 2 weeks which would essentially do following:

$ ng new hello-mobile --mobile --native
$ cd hello-mobile

Then run the app:

$ ng run ios

or...

ng run android

There's a lot of nice things that could be done here with regards to this but that'd be my first base run.
If multiple native runtimes were supported we could provide something like this:

$ ng new hello-mobile --mobile --nativescript
...or...
$ ng new hello-mobile --mobile --reactnative

[NathanWalker]

The goal would be to always generate a web shell (from the --mobile flag), so users would get their mobile web app to address the major points from your presentation (the web platform advantages with reach, etc), but then also give them the power to create native experiences (with the --native flag) as an added bonus on top of that since both platforms (web and native) have different pros and cons, this would allow them to achieve a synergistic approach to their app development.

[NathanWalker]

The integration would look much like what is available right now with nativescript-ng2-magic: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nativescript-ng2-magic

It works great with angular-cli today as outlined here: NativeScript/nativescript-angular#225 (comment)

Working on a tighter integration would truly make it as simple as possible.

[jeffbcross]

@NathanWalker I agree there should be a way to create an app with Web + NativeScript (or other native runtime) with CLI. Right now, the CLI doesn't have a great extensibility story, so any such work has to be done in the CLI repo itself. I think angular/angular-cli#698 is the best place to keep the discussion going.

[NathanWalker]

Thank you @jeffbcross 👍