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DART Cookbook

By : Ivo Balbaert
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DART Cookbook

By: Ivo Balbaert

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Dart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Polymer (as defined at http://www.polymer-project.org/) is a web development feature designed to fully utilize the evolving web platform on modern browsers; it modularizes the way a web client interface is defined. Web pages can now be built and composed with web components that can simply be accessed by their names. Web components are reusable chunks of styled HTML5 or extensions from native HTML tags. Moreover, they enable two-way data binding to make data from code elements visible and editable in the DOM. They can also contain code to change their behavior, either in JavaScript or Dart, through a class that backs up the components. A Polymer web component thus encapsulates structure, style, and behavior. Polymer is a library on top of web components and in some browsers that don't support web components, yet, it has been a polyfill.

Polymer.dart is the Dart port of Polymer created and supported by the Dart team. At the time of writing this, the version of polymer.dart is...