Production Tips ​

The 8.x pipeline bundles your src/nativescript code with esbuild — output is already compact and tree-shaken, and there is no separate "production mode" to configure.

A few notes for release builds:

  • Debug logging is already off by default. Verbose bridge marshalling logs only appear if you call nativeDebug(true) — make sure you're not shipping that call.

  • Metadata footprint. The platform API metadata lives in your app package — ~8–12 MB on iOS (from the NativeScript framework by default, or nscap metadata), ~2–3 MB on Android (generated by nscap build). This matches the footprint every NativeScript app has always had — it is the map of the platform APIs.

  • NativeScript console.log output goes to the system log in release builds too; strip or gate any noisy logging in your native helpers before shipping.

v5 note

The v5 webpack flags (--env=uglify=true, --env=production=true) no longer exist — esbuild replaced the webpack pipeline. Bundle minification lands as an nscap build flag in a follow-up 8.x release.