Book Description
Over 110 incredibly effective, useful, and hands-on recipes to design Dart web client and server applications
In Detail
Dart is a new open source programming language for the Web, developed at Google, with a steadily growing community. It is a single language for both client and server, and is apt for the complete range of devices on the Web, including phones, tablets, laptops, and servers. Stop solving new challenges with the same old tools—let Dart show you a new, simpler, and more unified way, which makes use of the same language for both client and server.
This book is a pragmatic guide that will increase your expertise in writing all kinds of applications, including web apps, scripts, and server-side apps. It provides rich insights on how to extend your Dart programming skills.
What You Will Learn
- Set up your Dart environment to achieve the highest productivity
- Structure, document, test, and deploy your apps
- Use mixins, reflections, annotations, and other metadata programming techniques to create powerful apps
- Use the power of modern browsers to process and store data
- Communicate with JavaScript and use JavaScript libraries
- Work with files, streams, and web servers by writing asynchronous code
- Demonstrate the power of Polymer web components for binding data and structuring your web pages
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Table of Contents
- Dart Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Dart Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Working with Dart Tools
- Introduction
- Configuring the Dart environment
- Setting up the checked and production modes
- Rapid Dart Editor troubleshooting
- Hosting your own private pub mirror
- Using Sublime Text 2 as an IDE
- Compiling your app to JavaScript
- Debugging your app in JavaScript for Chrome
- Using the command-line tools
- Solving problems when pub get fails
- Shrinking the size of your app
- Making a system call
- Using snapshotting
- Getting information from the operating system
- 2. Structuring, Testing, and Deploying an Application
- Introduction
- Exiting from an app
- Parsing command-line arguments
- Structuring an application
- Using a library from within your app
- Microtesting your code with assert
- Unit testing a Polymer web app
- Adding logging to your app
- Documenting your app
- Profiling and benchmarking your app
- Publishing and deploying your app
- Using different settings in the checked and production modes
- 3. Working with Data Types
- Introduction
- Concatenating strings
- Using regular expressions
- Strings and Unicode
- Using complex numbers
- Creating an enum
- Flattening a list
- Generating a random number within a range
- Getting a random element from a list
- Working with dates and times
- Improving performance in numerical computations
- Using SIMD for enhanced performance
- 4. Object Orientation
- Introduction
- Testing and converting types
- Comparing two objects
- Using a factory constructor
- Building a singleton
- Using reflection
- Using mixins
- Using annotations
- Using the call method
- Using noSuchMethod
- Making toJSON and fromJSON methods in your class
- Creating common classes for client and server apps
- 5. Handling Web Applications
- Introduction
- Responsive design
- Sanitizing HTML
- Using a browser's local storage
- Using application cache to work offline
- Preventing an onSubmit event from reloading the page
- Dynamically inserting rows in an HTML table
- Using CORS headers
- Using keyboard events
- Enabling drag-and-drop
- Enabling touch events
- Creating a Chrome app
- Structuring a game project
- Using WebGL in your app
- Authorizing OAuth2 to Google services
- Talking with JavaScript
- Using JavaScript libraries
- 6. Working with Files and Streams
- 7. Working with Web Servers
- 8. Working with Futures, Tasks, and Isolates
- 9. Working with Databases
- 10. Polymer Dart Recipes
- Introduction
- Data binding with polymer.dart
- Binding and repeating over a list
- Binding to a map
- Using custom attributes and template conditionals
- Binding to an input text field or a text area
- Binding to a checkbox
- Binding to radio buttons
- Binding to a selected field
- Event handling
- Polymer elements with JavaScript interop
- Extending DOM elements
- Working with custom elements
- Automatic node finding
- Internationalizing a Polymer app
- 11. Working with Angular Dart
- Index