9. A system, comprising: a hardware processor; and a memory storing a set of instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to: receive a request to build a new application developed using an application development framework; receive a template application, the template application comprising one or more binary artifacts and declarative information, the template application being pre-compiled using a build toolkit; modify the declarative information associated with the template application using metadata associated with the new application, the metadata configuring one or more components included in the new application, and the modifying comprising replacing a first set of definition files associated with the template application with a second set of definition files associated with the new application; and build the new application to target a mobile device using the one or more binary artifacts of the template application and the modified declarative information, wherein the set of instructions that cause the processor to modify the declarative information associated with the template application further comprise instructions that cause the processor to modify a reference to the declarative information to include a reference to declarative information associated with one or more portions of the new application.
12. The system of claim 9 , wherein the set of instructions further comprise instructions that cause the processor to pre-compile the template application to generate the one or more binary artifacts and a set of definition files that include the declarative information.