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Mastering Dart

By : Sergey Akopkokhyants
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Mastering Dart

By: Sergey Akopkokhyants

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Mastering Dart
Sergey Akopkokhyants
Nov, 2014 | 346 pages
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Dart
Mastering Dart
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Beyond Dart's Basics
Beyond Dart's Basics
Modularity and a namespace
Functions and closures in different scopes
Classes and mixins
Methods and operators
Summary
2
Advanced Techniques and Reflection
Advanced Techniques and Reflection
Generics
Errors versus exceptions
Annotations
Reflection
Summary
3
Object Creation
Object Creation
Creating an object
Summary
4
Asynchronous Programming
Asynchronous Programming
Call-stack architectures versus event-driven architectures
Future
Zones
Isolates
Summary
5
The Stream Framework
The Stream Framework
Why you should use streams
Single-subscription streams versus broadcast streams
An overview of the stream framework API
Summary
6
The Collection Framework
The Collection Framework
A Dart collection framework
Ordering of elements
Collections and generics
The collection class hierarchy
The Iterable interface
The Iterable interface
BidirectionalIterator
The collection classes
Unmodifiable collections
Choosing the right collection
Summary
7
Dart and JavaScript Interoperation
Dart and JavaScript Interoperation
Interoperation at a glance
The dart:js library
Type conversion
JsObject and instantiation
JsFunction and the this keyword
Dart with jQuery
Summary
8
Internalization and Localization
Internalization and Localization
The key principles
The Intl library
Internationalizing your web application
Extracting messages
Using Google Translator Toolkit
Using translated messages
Summary
9
Client-to-server Communication
Client-to-server Communication
Communication at a glance
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
AJAX polling request
AJAX long polling request
WebSocket
Summary
10
Advanced Storage
Advanced Storage
Cookies
Web Storage
Web SQL
IndexedDB
Summary
11
Supporting Other HTML5 Features
Supporting Other HTML5 Features
The notification APIs
The native drag-and-drop APIs
The geolocation APIs
Canvas
Summary
12
Security Aspects
Security Aspects
Web security
Securing a server
Securing a client
Security best practices
Summary
Index
Index

Chapter 9. Client-to-server Communication

In this chapter, we will discuss how to organize client-to-server communication. We will find answers to presumably the important questions, such as the right choice of Dart classes using the client-to-server communication. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Communication at a glance

  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol

  • AJAX polling request

  • AJAX long polling request

  • Server-Sent Events

  • WebSocket

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