A Medium publication where mostly non-Google developers write about building apps with Flutter and Dart.
HN commenters note it is written mostly by non-Googlers. One complains that code examples go missing on Medium, and others discuss Flutter and Dart.
The one from PanGUI (https://pangui.io/blog/05-layout-rework-and-benchmarks/) looks impressive. It seems to combine a lot of the power/flexibility from CSS with the performance of simpler systems. It's not open source though, so it's hard to evaluate properly.
One thing I would love to see is CSS gain new unit which represents "a proportion of free space" (after fixed-size things have been sized) similar to fr units from CSS Grid but usable for properties like width/height and that would disable the "automatic minimum/content based size" that causes so many of the performance pitfalls with CSS layout.
I think this could make CSS layout both faster and more intuitive for 90% of layouts. And you could retain the existing properties for advanced layouts and backwards compatibility.
Flutter's blog post "constraints go down, sizes go up" [0] is the classic that I would recommend to anyone trying to understand UI layout. It doesn't cover every possible approach, but it applies to most of them including CSS. If you combine with a rule of thumb for keeping layout fast: "content-based sizing XOR flexible sizing" then you're well on your way to making a good layout system.
[0]: https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-the-advanced-layout-rule-even-beginners-must-know-edc9516d1a2
I don't think it's very big in the server side community, but the mobile development platform Flutter [1] has taken off and we've enjoyed it so far.
Dart is alright as a language, but it doesn't interoperate very well with other systems due to it's lack of runtime-reflection, just try parsing a [2] JSON message!
[1] https://flutter.dev/
[2] https://medium.com/flutter-community/how-to-parse-json-in-flutter-for-beginners-8074a68d7a79
Many reasons, some of which Dart fixes. Too bad it hasn't catched on. Now it's a language to build mobile apps with. Maybe it will be usable for cross platform desktop GUIs as well. And hopefully some of its sane language features will be ported to future versions of ES.
https://medium.com/flutter-community/the-ultimate-javascript-vs-dart-syntax-guide-2f7d8ad8bde6
I noticed that in a lot of articles example code is just missing, like this one, on mobile:
https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-redux-toast-notification-fcd0971eaf0f
I don’t know who’s to blame here but I already hate Medium with a passion and this is not helping.
They recently added "PlatformView" which allows you to embed any native (Android/iOS) component in the app. Sample: https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-platformview-how-to-create-flutter-widgets-from-native-views-366e378115b6
There are people successfully running Flutter on desktops, but it isn't currently the main thrust of the project.
https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-on-desktop-a-real-competitor-to-electron-4f049ea6b061