Articles & Resources #

1. Style    — naming conventions, formatting, comments
2. Design   — designing expressive, consistent APIs
3. Usage    — how to use language features correctly
4. Documentation — how to document code well

VS Code + Dart Extension
  → Most popular, lightweight, free
  → Extensions: Dart, Flutter, Error Lens, Bracket Pair Colorizer

IntelliJ IDEA / Android Studio + Dart Plugin
  → Full IDE, more advanced refactoring
  → Better suited for large Flutter projects

DartPad (dart.dev/dartpad)
  → Try Dart code directly in the browser
  → No installation needed

# The official Dart formatter
dart format .                    # format all files
dart format --output=none .      # check only, don't modify

# Analyzer
dart analyze                     # analyze the whole project
dart analyze --fatal-infos       # fail on any info/warning

# Package publishing
dart pub publish --dry-run       # simulate a publication

# Upgrade all dependencies
dart pub upgrade --major-versions

# Generate a coverage report
dart test --coverage coverage/
dart pub global run coverage:format_coverage \
  --lcov --in coverage --out coverage/lcov.info

# Documentation
dart doc .                       # generate HTML documentation

dev_dependencies:
  # Official Dart linting rules
  lints: ^3.0.0

  # Flutter linting rules
  flutter_lints: ^3.0.0

  # Stricter linting (highly recommended)
  very_good_analysis: ^5.0.0

  # Deeper code quality analysis
  dart_code_metrics: ^5.7.0

# Simple HTTP client (Dart built-in)
http: ^1.2.0

# HTTP client with more features (interceptors, cancel, retry)
dio: ^5.4.0

# HTTP response caching
dio_cache_interceptor: ^3.5.0

# Automatic retry for failed requests
retry: ^3.1.2

# Code generation for fromJson/toJson
json_annotation: ^4.8.0

dev_dependencies:
  json_serializable: ^6.7.0
  build_runner: ^2.4.0

# Provider — the most popular and easiest
provider: ^6.1.0

# Riverpod — type-safe, testable, no context
riverpod: ^2.5.0
flutter_riverpod: ^2.5.0

# Bloc — a highly testable pattern
flutter_bloc: ^8.1.5

# Key-value storage
shared_preferences: ^2.2.3
hive_flutter: ^1.1.0

# SQLite ORM (Flutter)
drift: ^2.14.0
drift_flutter: ^0.1.0

# Secure storage for tokens
flutter_secure_storage: ^9.0.0

# Automatic equality, copyWith, toString
equatable: ^2.0.5
freezed_annotation: ^2.4.1

# Dependency injection
get_it: ^7.6.4
injectable: ^2.3.2

# Logging
logging: ^1.2.0

# Dates and times
intl: ^0.19.0

# UUID generation
uuid: ^4.3.3

# Collection utilities
collection: ^1.18.0

# Path manipulation
path: ^1.9.0

1. Installation and environment setup
2. Basic syntax — variables, data types, operators
3. Control flow — if/else, switch, loops
4. Functions — parameters, return types, arrow functions
5. Classes and basic OOP
6. Null safety — fundamental in modern Dart
7. Collections — List, Map, Set
8. async/await and basic Futures
9. Your first package — explore pub.dev, add the http package
10. A small project — a simple CLI tool

1. Generics and deeper type system topics
2. Extension methods and mixins
3. Streams and reactive programming
4. Isolates and concurrency
5. Testing — unit tests, mocking
6. JSON serialization — manual and json_serializable
7. Databases — SQLite with Drift or PostgreSQL
8. A simple HTTP server with Shelf
9. Dart 3 patterns — sealed classes, pattern matching
10. Basic Flutter (if interested in mobile/web/desktop)

1. Architecture patterns — Clean Architecture, DDD, CQRS
2. Complex state management — Riverpod, Bloc
3. Performance profiling and optimization
4. Multi-isolate architecture
5. Dart compilation targets — native, JS, wasm
6. Building and publishing packages to pub.dev
7. CI/CD for Dart projects
8. Your framework of choice — Conduit, Angel, or advanced Shelf
9. Contributing to Dart open source
10. Following dart-lang/language and dart-lang/sdk on GitHub