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DART Essentials

DART Essentials

By : Sikora
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DART Essentials

DART Essentials

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By: Sikora
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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)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Getting Started with Dart
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1. Getting Started with Dart
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What is Dart?
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Why choose Dart?
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Installing the Dart SDK
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The Dart language tour
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Summary
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2. Practical Dart
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2. Practical Dart
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Optimizing DOM tree manipulations
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The documentation search app
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Combining Dart and JavaScript
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Dart MythBusters
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Summary
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3. The Power of HTML5 with Dart
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3. The Power of HTML5 with Dart
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Creating the Reddit Read Later app
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Music visualizer
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Other noteworthy APIs and libraries
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Summary
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4. Developing a Mobile App with Dart
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4. Developing a Mobile App with Dart
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300 ms tap delay
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Basics of CSS3 transformations
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A 3D bookshelf with DeviceOrientation events
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Position and distance tracker with the GeoLocation API and Google Maps API
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Drawing into 2D canvas using onTouch events
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5. Web Components and polymer.dart
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5. Web Components and polymer.dart
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Web Components
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The Web Components polyfill for older browsers
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Basic HTML Import
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Using Shadow DOM
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Using Custom Elements
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Polymer.dart
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One-way data binding
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Two-way data binding
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Polymer core and paper elements
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6. AngularDart
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6. AngularDart
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Installing AngularDart
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To-do list with AngularDart
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Extending the to-do list
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A book component in AngularDart
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What is Angular 2.0?
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Performance tips for AngularDart
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Summary
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7. Server-side Applications with Dart
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7. Server-side Applications with Dart
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The standalone Dart VM
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Parsing CLI arguments with the args package
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Writing a chat app with the WebSockets server
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Writing an HTTP server with the route package
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Using Dart as a full-stack language
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8. Testing and Profiling the Dart Code
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8. Testing and Profiling the Dart Code
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Testing strategies for web apps
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Unit testing
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Operator overloading and mixins
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Testing AngularDart apps
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Profiling with the Observatory tool
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9. Writing Native Extensions for the Standalone Dart VM
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9. Writing Native Extensions for the Standalone Dart VM
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The structure of native extensions
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Writing a minimal native extension
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Writing a native fuzzy search implementation
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Writing bindings for the exiv2 library
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Distributing native extensions
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Index
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What is Angular 2.0?

AngularJS and AngularDart are two separate projects in two different languages, sharing the same philosophy. This requires two of Google's developer teams to maintain two codebases. Angular 2.0 is still in development and its release date is unknown, yet there are some fundamental concepts known already.

Angular 2.0 is developed in AtScript, which is a language created by Google that extends Microsoft's TypeScript. TypeScript itself is a superset of JavaScript and should be partly compatible with the ECMAScript 6 standard in the future. Right now, it has to be compiled to JavaScript as well.

That said, there will be just one codebase for Angular 2.0 in AtScript, which can be compiled into JavaScript or Dart.

Why is Angular 2.0 not written in Dart?

That's an obvious question. Angular 2.0 has to be easy to use for both Dart and JavaScript developers, and here's the problem with Dart. Dart doesn't compile into code that is easily reusable in JavaScript. In Chapter 1, Getting...

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