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Taking Flutter to the Web

By : Damodar Lohani
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Taking Flutter to the Web

By: Damodar Lohani

Overview of this book

Using a shared codebase in addition to an extensive range of tools in the Flutter ecosystem optimized for browsers, the Flutter framework has expanded to enable you to bring your mobile apps to the web. You’ll find out how web developers can leverage the Flutter framework for web apps with this hands-on guide. Taking Flutter to the Web will help you learn all about the Flutter ecosystem by covering the tools and project structure that allows you to easily integrate Flutter into your web stack. You’ll understand the concepts of cross-platform UI development and how they can be applied to web platforms. As you explore Flutter on the web, you'll become well-versed with using Flutter as an alternative UI platform for building adaptive and responsive designs for web apps. By the end of this Flutter book, you'll have built and deployed a complete Flutter app for the web and have a roadmap ready to target the web for your existing Flutter mobile apps.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1: Basics of Flutter Web
5
Part 2: Flutter Web under the Hood
9
Part 3: Advanced Concepts

What is Appwrite?

Appwrite is an awesome open source backend as a service for web and mobile applications, including Flutter. It provides a wide range of features that are essential for building modern applications. Modern applications are content-rich, collaborative, and sync across devices. All of this would not be possible without a solid backend. Appwrite is an example of this kind of solid backend. Also, I think Appwrite is a great complement to Flutter, as they share some of the same qualities. First, both are open source; second, both focus on making the developer experience awesome, and finally, both are simple to work with and integrate well together. Appwrite provides various services, such as authentication, databases, storage, and cloud functions, all of which are accessible via a REST API or a real-time API using WebSocket. Don’t worry – we don’t have to work from scratch, as Appwrite already provides awesome SDKs for many platforms and languages,...