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Taking Flutter to the Web

By : Damodar Lohani
Book Image

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 Firebase?

Firebase is a backend as a service for web and mobile applications. Firebase brings a great set of features and tools for web and mobile application developers. Firebase is a proprietary service offered by Google. It provides various services, such as Authentication, Realtime Database, Storage, Cloud Functions, Analytics, and Crashlytics. All of these services are accessible via their various SDKs.

Firebase provides official SDKs for Flutter and integrates well with Flutter. Firebase can be a great choice for developers when they want a robust backend but don’t want to spend too much time and cost developing it. Though Firebase has a free tier, the cost of Firebase increases as your application’s use rises. Make sure to go through the pricing (https://firebase.google.com/pricing) to understand more about how much each of the services of Firebase costs.

As Firebase provides various essential services for developers, and both Firebase and Flutter...