Issue 214 - Flutter Tap Weekly Newsletter
Stay ahead with Flutter: Explore new state management, handle background tasks, Dockerize apps, and more.
Articles
Why You Should Learn Flutter. Andrew Zuo discusses the many posts about "Flutter is dying" and his reasons for continuing to bet on Flutter.
Tutorials
Introducing Solidart: A Simplified Approach to Flutter State Management Inspired by SolidJS. I know another state management library, but keep your mind open! Dan introduces this library and explains how to use it.
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Free local-first sync layer w/ Drift support
PowerSync is a self-hostable sync layer that keeps local Flutter SQLite in sync with backend Postgres, including Supabase. Use local-first architecture for instant UX reactivity, real-time collaboration, and robust offline support. Also supports FlutterFlow.
You can learn more about it here.
Efficient Background Task Handling in Flutter: A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up Work Manager. Gagan Bhirangi shows us how to efficiently work with background tasks in our apps.
Step-by-Step Guide to Dockerizing Dart and Flutter Web for Deployment. Dinko Marinac teaches us how to encapsulate our Dart and Flutter web applications and their dependencies in Docker containers to achieve high portability and reliability.
Videos
Observable Flutter #45: Universal styling with Mix. Watch as Craig Labenz discusses Mix, a new styling paradigm in Flutter, with its creator, Dart & Flutter GDE Leo Farias.
Flutter MVVM Architecture Full Course for Beginners - Spotify Clone | Python, FastAPI, Riverpod. By Rivaan Ranawat. In this 10 hour tutorial, we'll be building a music streaming app very similar to Spotify using the MVVM Architecture. In this project, we'll be using Flutter for the app's frontend, FastAPI for the backend, PostgreSQL for the database, Hive for local data storage and Riverpod (Generators) for state management.
Guest Speaker: Stephen Johnston, Developing Flutter Apps on GitHub Codespace. Flutter Atlanta is proud to announce one of our very own, Stephen Johnston, as he takes us through the world of GitHub Codespaces, a fully configured, secure cloud development environment native to GitHub.
Humpday Q&A/AMA with Serverpods' Viktor Lidholt :: 12th June 2024 :: #HumpdayQandA #Flutter. Join Simon, Scott, Danielle and guest Viktor Lidholt.
Packages
workmanager. Flutter Workmanager. This plugin allows you to schedule background work on Android and iOS.
flutter_solidart. A simple State Management solution for Flutter applications inspired by SolidJS.
flutter_rust_bridge. High-level memory-safe binding generator for Flutter/Dart <-> Rust.