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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

Building layouts

Let’s continue by building our home page, and in the process, we will learn about some more basic layout widgets that will be essential in further chapters when we’re learning about more advanced concepts. We will be reusing the widgets we built in the last section as well as the ones already provided with the starter project in the chapter2/lib/widgets folder. Let us start by creating our home page. Create a new file called chapter2/lib/pages/home_page.dart, and start by creating a stateless widget with the following:

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
class HomePage extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      body: ListView(
        padding: const EdgeInsets.all(16.0),
        children: <Widget>[
    ...