15th April 2025

Angular with NativeScript: Creating the Blackout Lighting Console

Angular with NativeScript, Lighting consoles are electronic devices used in theatrical lighting design to control multiple stage lights at once. Traditionally, lighting consoles are standalone physical devices. The nstudio team wanted to bring the power and versatility of the lighting console to mobile devices. This is the story of how we used Angular and NativeScript to bring that vision to reality. We developed Blackout, an iPad app that provides the same features as standalone lighting consoles on a table. The app supports a versatile DMX (Digital Multiplex) control platform, compatible with industry-standard sACN E1.31 and Art-Net protocols via WiFi or Ethernet. Additional Bluetooth control is also available via LumenRadio TimoTwo […]
13th May 2019

What’s New In Angular 8.0

Angular is one of the most popular open-source web app frameworks used by developers around the globe. When Google released Angular in 2016, developers flocked to migrate the framework. Today, a large number of users use Angular. The rapidly growing community looks forward to the Angular team for periodic updates and Angular 8.0 is the upcoming upgrade with a new renderer- Ivy. Let’s see what’s so special about Ivy and what all you can expect in the latest Angular 8.0 package. Ivy: Next-gen Renderer for Angular Framework While most of the team is heads-down on Ivy, we have several updates […]