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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

Using basic widgets

We will start by revising some basics, which will involve creating sections of our home page. To begin, open the chapter2_start/lib/widgets/featured_section.dart file and start updating the code as the following.

First, we will create a stateless widget:

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
class FeaturedSection extends StatelessWidget {
  const FeaturedSection({ Key? key }) : super(key: key);
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Container();
  }
}

Here, we are creating a stateless widget that just displays a blank container. Our featured section will have an image, a title, a description, and a button. We want to display the image on the left and content on the right, or vice versa. Let’s add our image and content. Update the body of the build method, as follows:

return Container(
  child: Row(
    children: [
 ...