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DART Essentials

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DART Essentials

Overview of this book

This book is targeted at expert programmers in JavaScript who want to learn Dart quickly. Some previous experience with OOP programming in other languages and a good knowledge of JavaScript are assumed.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
10
Index

To-do list with AngularDart


We'll set off with quite a simple application, where you can dynamically add tasks to a list and then gradually extend it with more complex functionality, while showing the most common AngularDart features.

We'll keep the HTML code very simple:

<!-- web/index.html -->
<html ng-app>
<body>
  <todo-list></todo-list>
  
  <script type="application/dart" src="main.dart"></script>
  <script src="packages/browser/dart.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Note the ng-app directive inside the <html> tag. This tells AngularDart that everything inside this DOM tree is controlled by Angular. In practice, this means that you shouldn't modify the DOM tree by yourself and leave all DOM manipulations to Angular; otherwise, this might cause unpredictable behavior. Also, we're including the Web Components polyfill that we already know from the previous chapter. You can probably guess that AngularDart is going to use...