Hi @c1ngular,

Thank you for your question.
In NativeScript you could use vanilla JavaScript as well as TypeScript as program language. With both options, you could use all features plugins build for the platform. In regard to that TypeScript has been integrated in NativeScript to help the programmer, who is coming from other strongly-typed language and would like to use IntelliSense while writing their app.

After you add plugin in your project tns plugin add <plugin_name> you should required it in your project to be able to use its functionality. You could review our getting started project from the documentation.
About your second question, you could read more about NativeScript plugin here.

In case you have more questions you could use our StackOverflow or Slack canals, where you could also find help from our community .

I hope this information helps

@tsonevn
Thank you, i will dig around .

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