Chapter 1, Beyond Dart's Basics, helps you take a step further to understand the concept of programming in the Dart language. It shows the best practices to use functions and closures and dives into the world of classes and mixins.

Chapter 2, Advanced Techniques and Reflection, lets you get a firm grasp on how to use generics, errors and exceptions, and annotations, and it takes you through Mirrors of reflection.

Chapter 3, Object Creation, helps you understand how objects can be created and will help you make a right choice that will be useful in different business cases.

Chapter 4, Asynchronous Programming, explores advanced technologies to organize asynchronous code execution. It shows you the best practices of Future, zones, and isolates.

Chapter 5, The Stream Framework, shows you how Dart manages streams. It teaches you how the single-subscription and broadcast streams can be used in different cases and scenarios.

Chapter 6, The Collection Framework, introduces you to the Dart collection frameworks. It shows which data structure of a collection is appropriate in specific cases based on patterns and performance consideration.

Chapter 7, Dart and JavaScript Interoperation, shows you how to use Dart and JavaScript together to build web applications. It lists problems and shows solutions you can use to communicate between Dart and JavaScript and the existing JavaScript program.

Chapter 8, Internalization and Localization, explains you how the i18n and l10n access can be embedded into your code to help you design and develop web applications that enable easy localization for different cultures, regions, and languages.

Chapter 9, Client-to-server Communication, helps you organize and create client-to-server communications. It has the answer on presumably the most important questions about the right choice of libraries and packages in specific scenarios.

Chapter 10, Advanced Storage, explains how can store data locally on a client, break the storage limits, and prevent security issues in your web applications. It will again touch upon cookies and demonstrate how to use Web Storage and the elaborate, more powerful, and more useful IndexedDB to store a large amount of data in the web browser.

Chapter 11, Supporting Other HTML5 Features, introduces you to different HTML5 features such as notifications, native drag-and-drop, geolocation, and canvas.

Chapter 12, Security Aspects, helps you understand the different aspects of security in web applications.

Any modern PC installed with Windows, Linux, or Mac OS should be sufficient to run the code samples in the book. All the software used in the book is open source and freely available on the Web. The following are the links to the software:

If you are a software engineer who has basic or intermediate knowledge of the Dart programming language and have possibly used this language to develop applications earlier, this is the book for you. The book reveals the different ways of developing client- and server-side applications on Dart and includes enough examples for both. For beginners, it will serve as a guide to rapidly accelerate from a novice level to the master level; for intermediate to advanced developers, it will quickly fill in the gaps on Dart.

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The inst variable holds a reference to the original object in the reflectee property."

A block of code is set as follows:

// AssemblyLine.
class AssemblyLine {
  // List of items on line.
  List _items = [];

  // Add [item] to line.
  add(item) {
    _items.add(item);
  }

  // Make operation on all items in line.
  make(operation) {
    _items.forEach((item) {
      operation(item);
    });
  }
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

sudo apt-get install libnss3-tools

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Expand the Web SQL tree item from the Resources tab to see the Web SQL storage data."

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