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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

Understanding Routes and Navigation

In the previous chapter, we learned how Flutter works under the hood to produce applications for different platforms, especially for the web. We also learned about different renderers available to build web apps, and how and when to use them. In this chapter, we will start learning about routing and navigation. We will also implement navigation in our Flutter Academy application.

By the end of this chapter, you will understand how to use routes and how to navigate between different screens. You will also learn how to use these principles to add navigation to our application. You will learn about the Navigator 2.0 API and how it’s useful for web applications. We will then change our application to use Navigator 2.0, allowing us to use navigation effectively, which will include parsing URLs received from the web browser and updating the navigation stack based on the URL.

In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics:

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