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Lists in Dart and Flutter
Introduction Dart Combines Lists and Arrays In Dart, a List is an ordered Collection (sometimes called a sequence). Unlike other languages, an Array and a List have been combined together and are the same thing. A list is a number of items (objects) in an unordered structure. Additional items can be added to the list. Items can be updated or removed from the list if required. Lists may contain duplicate elements. Iterators You can use an iterator to go through the list items one by one programatically. As a developer, you will use iterators all the time. Example Note how the List in the example below (containing items...
Web Development in Google Dart
The mainstream Dart web development route is now writing code with Dart but compiling and running as JavaScript using webdev, which works with the build_runner utility. Installing You will have to install the webdev package using the pub dependency manager: pub global activate webdev This installs webdev and makes sure it is available on the command line. Commands webdev serveRuns a development server that continuously builds a web app. webdev buildBuilds a deployable version of a web app. build_runner testRuns tests. JavaScript Compilers When you invoke webdev, it invokes the dart2js and dartdevc JavaScript compilers in combination...
Command Line Tools Included With Google Dart
Name Description dart Enables you to execute a .dart file within the Dart Virtual Machine. dart2js Compiles dart source code to JavaScript. dartanalyser Analyses dart source code. This is used by many of the code editors to provide error and warning highlighting. dartdevc Compiles dart source code to JavaScript. Similar to dart2js except that it supports incremental compilation, which lends itself to developers. dartdoc Generates Dart documentation from source code. As the seminal book ‘Domain-Driven Design’ by Eric Evans states: ‘the code is the model and the model is the code’. dartfmt Formats Dart source code. This is used by...
Dynamic Typing - 'var' vs 'dynamic' in Google Dart
Interchangeable Most of the Time You can define untyped variables by declaring them using the ‘var’ or ‘dynamic’ keywords. The ‘var’ keyword declares a variable without specifying its type, leaving the variable as a dynamic. No type is specified. The ‘dynamic’ keyword declares a variable of the type ‘dynamic’ with optional typing. It marks variable as 'not type checked'. Exception (Methods) Methods need to return a type so they will work with 'dynamic' but wont work with 'var': void main() { print (multiplyMethod1(2,4)); print (multiplyMethod2(2,4)); } dynamic multiplyMethod1(int a, int b){ return a * b; } ...
Using Mixins in Google Dart / Google Flutter
As mentioned at the start of this book, a Mixin is a class that contains methods for use by other classes without it having to be the parent class of those other classes.
So, a Mixin is a class you can use code from without having to inherit from...