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DART Cookbook

By : Ivo Balbaert
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DART Cookbook

By: Ivo Balbaert

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Dart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with custom elements


Instead of making a new Polymer component from scratch or starting with an existing HTML element and building upon that as we did in the previous recipe, you can also simply use custom-made Polymer elements.

This recipe will implement some of the core and paper elements of the Polymer project (http://www.polymer-project.org/docs/elements/). The paper_elements project is the Polymer implementation of Google's Material Design UI widgets (for more information, refer to http://www.polymer-project.org/docs/elements/material.html). There will be more and more of these, either written in JavaScript with a custom Dart wrapper to use them, or purely in Dart, and you can also combine them with your own Polymer components. You can find the code in the project pol_custom.

How to do it...

  1. In our pubspec.yaml file, we add the following dependencies:

    dependencies:
    polymer: '>=0.11.0 <0.12.0'
    core_elements: '>=0.0.6 <0.1.0'
    paper_elements: '>=0.0.1 <0.1.0'
    
  2. The...