NativeScript best practices and patterns for mobile applications

NativeScript best practices and patterns for mobile applications is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AmariahAK/atlarix-skills. It costs 9 tokens per session (758 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of patterns for NativeScript, a framework for building mobile apps with JavaScript or TypeScript and native iOS and Android code. It explains how to organize shared and platform-specific components and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when structuring NativeScript apps, separating iOS and Android files, extending native classes, or naming components, styles, and platform-specific variables.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion when one mobile codebase needs different iOS and Android implementations. It also keeps custom native code and naming consistent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when structuring NativeScript apps, separating iOS and Android files, extending native classes, or naming components, styles, and platform-specific variables.

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npx agentmods add skills/amariahak/atlarix-skills/acr-nativescript
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add AmariahAK/atlarix-skills --skill acr-nativescript
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AmariahAK/atlarix-skills

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Per session 9 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 758 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00379
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00076

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Security

Grade A, and why

NativeScript best practices and patterns for mobile applications scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/acr-nativescript/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NativeScript best practices and patterns for mobile applications

When to use this skill

NativeScript best practices and patterns for mobile applications

Source

Synced from https://github.com/PatrickJS/awesome-cursorrules/tree/main/rules/nativescript.mdc.

NativeScript Best Practices

Code Style and Structure

  • Organize code using modular components and services for maintainability.
  • Use platform-specific files (.ios.ts, .android.ts) when code exceeds 20 platform-specific lines.
  • When creating custom native code, use a folder structure like custom-native/index.ios.ts, custom-native/index.android.ts, custom-native/common.ts, custom-native/index.d.ts to keep platform-specific code organized and easy to import with single import elsewhere, replacing custom-native with the name of the custom code.

Naming Conventions

  • Prefix platform-specific variables with ios or android (e.g., iosButtonStyle).
  • Name custom components and styles descriptively (primaryButtonStyle, userProfileView).

Usage

  • Use @NativeClass() when extending native classes when needed
  • For iOS, when extending native classes, always use static ObjCProtocols = [AnyUIKitDelegate]; to declare custom delegates if a delegate is required or used.
  • For iOS, always retain custom delegate instances to prevent garbage collection. For example, let delegate = MyCustomDelegate.new() as MyCustomDelegate, and ensure it is retained in the class scope.
  • Favor __ANDROID__ and __APPLE__ for conditional platform code with tree-shaking.
  • Track and clean up all timers (setTimeout, setInterval) to avoid memory leaks.

UI and Styling

  • Always TailwindCSS as the CSS Framework using "@nativescript/tailwind": "^2.1.0" for consistent styling paired with "tailwindcss": "~3.4.0".
  • Add ios: and android: style variants for platform-specific styling, addVariant('android', '.ns-android &'), addVariant('ios', '.ns-ios &');
  • darkMode: ['class', '.ns-dark']
  • Leverage GridLayout or StackLayout for flexible, responsive layouts. Place more emphasis on proper GridLayout usage for complex layouts but use StackLayout for simpler, linear arrangements.
  • Use visibility: 'hidden' for elements that should not affect layout when hidden.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 55 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 96a20b32898d

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NativeScript best practices and patterns for mobile applications is a skill published in the GitHub repository AmariahAK/atlarix-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 758 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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