Developer resources and tooling

The focus on developers in the Flutter framework goes from documentation and learning resources to providing tools to helping with productivity:

  • Documentation and learning resources: Flutter websites are rich for developers coming from other platforms, including many examples and use cases, for example, the famous Google Codelabs (https://codelabs.developers.google.com/?cat=Flutter).
  • Command-line tools and IDE integration: Dart tools that help with analyzing, running, and managing dependencies are also part of Flutter. Besides that, Flutter also has commands to help with debugging, deploying, inspecting layout rendering and integration with IDEs through Dart plugins. Here's a list of the various commands:

  • Easy start: Flutter comes with the flutter doctor tool, which is a command-line tool that guides the developer through the system setup by indicating what is needed in order to be ready to set up a Flutter environment. This is what it looks like:

The flutter doctor command also identifies connected devices and whether there are any upgrades available, as you can see.

  • Hot reload: This is the feature that has been taking the focus in presentations about the framework. By combining the capabilities of the Dart language (such as JIT compilation) and the power of Flutter, it is possible for the developer to instantly see design changes made to code in the simulator or device. In Flutter, there is no specific tool for layout preview. Hot reload makes it unnecessary.

Now that we have learned about the benefits of Flutters, let's start looking at the software's compilations.

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