Summary

This chapter was focused on giving you the background story of Dart and getting to work with the SDK to produce a useful application.

We have discovered how the JavaScript language and its development limits, leading to the creation of the Dart open source project (centered around the https://www.dartlang.org website), which is being developed as an ECMA standard and can be used to write a range of application types from client to server and command line.

We have seen that Dart has a familiar syntax and powerful package management tool called pub. WebStorm can be used to create, launch, and debug different types of applications, and other IDEs and text editors have Dart language support, too.

We have worked through setting up a Dart development environment and wrote our first application using HTML5 features. We saw how to navigate the structure of a client-side web project and carry out debugging and development.

I am certain that the simple text editor that we have created is firing off ideas in your mind of what to do next! In the next chapter, we will continue to look at client-side Dart and add more features to the text editor, including some that will help us write more, and better, Dart code.