Taste of

web 

with

Flutter

Majid Hajian

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Updated - Flutter2

Credit to: JDominik Roszkowski - https://codepen.io/orestesgaolin/pen/ExVboMY

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Credit to: Joshua de Guzman - https://codepen.io/joshuadeguzman/pen/jObrzJB

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Credit to: Zoey Fan - https://codepen.io/zoeyfan/pen/ExVaXGK

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Agenda

  • Dart vs JS / TS
  • Flutter vs Web / Web vs Flutter?
  • How Flutter web works!
  • How / Where to start?
  • DEMO

ME.dart

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
MaterialApp(
   ThemeData(
        name: "Majid Hajian",
        location: "Oslo, Norway",
        description: '''
                Google Developer Expert
        	Passionate Software engineer, 
	        Community Leader, Author and international Speaker
         ''',
        main: "Flutter/Dart, PWA, Performance",
        homepage: "https://www.majidhajian.com",
        socials: {
          twitter: "https://www.twitter.com/mhadaily",
          github: "https://www.github.com/mhadaily"
        },
        author: {
          Pluralsight: "www.pluralsight.com/authors/majid-hajian",
          Apress: "Progressive Web App with Angular, Book",
          PacktPub: "PWA development",
          Udemy: "PWA development",
        }
        founder: "Softiware As (www.Softiware.com)"
        devDependencies: {
          tea: "Ginger", 
          mac: "10.14+",
        },
        community: {
          MobileEraConference: "Orginizer",
          FlutterVikings: "Orginizer", 
          FlutterDartOslo: "Orginizer",
          GDGOslo: "Co-Orginizer",
          DevFestNorway: "Orginizer",
          ...more
        }));

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Find me on the internet by

  • Compiled Natively
  • Single Codebase

Mobile / Desktop / Web / Embedded

  • Google's UI Toolkit
  • Only Dart!

Expressive & Flexible UI

Fast Development

Native Performance

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Expressive & Flexible UI

Fast Development

Native Performance

Productive

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https://skia.org/

Skia is an open-source 2D graphics library that provides common APIs that work across a variety of hardware and software platforms.

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Dart to JS

https://dart.dev/tools/dart2js

 dart2js -O2 -o test.js test.dart

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Web Renderers

HTML renderer

Uses a combination of HTML elements, CSS, Canvas elements, and SVG elements. This renderer has a smaller download size.


CanvasKit renderer

This renderer is fully consistent with Flutter mobile and desktop, has faster performance with higher widget density, but adds about 2MB in download size.

WebAssembly and Skia

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Scenarios

A PWA built with Flutter

Single Page Application

Existing Mobile Applications

At this time

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Why Dart?

  • Easy to learn
  • Familiarity to users with both static and dynamic languages

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Similarities

  • Event Loop
  • Just-in-time compilation
  • Ahead-of-time complication
  • Type safe
class User {
  id: number;
	
  constructor(public name: string){id=1};
    
    
   async fetchInfo() {
     return new Promise(
       resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 3*1000);
     );
   }
}


async function main(){

  const user = new User('Majid');
  
  await user.fetchInfo();
  
  console.log(`Hello ${user.id}`)
}
main();
class User {
  final int id;
  final String name;
	
  User(this.name) {id = 1};
    
  fetchInfo() async {
      return Future.delayed(const Duraction(seconds: 2));
   }
}


main() async {

  final user = User('Majid');
  
  await user.fetchInfo();
  
  print('Hello ${user.id}');
}

https://dartpad.dev/

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import 'dart:async';

Stream<int> countStream(int to) async* {
  for (int i = 1; i <= to; i++) {
    yield i;
  }
}

main() async {
  
  final count = await countStream(10).first;
  print('first count $count');
  
  countStream(10).listen((v) {
    print('Listen to count $v');
  });
}
import { fromEvent } from 'rxjs';
import { throttleTime, scan } from 'rxjs/operators';

fromEvent(document, 'click')
  .pipe(
    throttleTime(1000),
    scan(count => count + 1, 0)
  )
  .subscribe(count => console.log(`Clicked ${count} times`));

https://dartpad.dev/

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Everything is a widget

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class HelloWorld extends StatelessWidget {
    @override
    Widget build(BuildContext context){
	    return Text('Hello World');
    }
}
class HelloWorld extends HTMLElement {
    connectedCallback(){
    	this.innerHTML = '<p>Hello World</p>';
    }
}

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class HelloWorld extends StatelessWidget {
    @override
    Widget build(BuildContext context){
	    return Text('Hello World');
    }
}
class HelloWorld extends React.Component {
    render() {
		return '<p>Hello World</p>';
    }
}

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MaterialApp(
    home: Scaffold(
    	appBar: AppBar(
          title: Text('Hello World!'),
        ),
        body: Center(
          child: Text(
            'Majid Hajian',
             style: TextStyle(fontWeight: FontWeight.bold),
          ),
        ),
    ),
);

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<my-app-header>
    <hello-world bold></hello-world>
    
</my-app-header>

<div style="font-weight:bold; text-align:center;">
	Majid Hajian
</div>

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No CSS

MaterialApp(
    home: Scaffold(
    	appBar: AppBar(
          title: Text('Hello World!'),
        ),
        body: Center(
          child: Padding(
            padding: EdgeInsets.all(10.0),
            child: const Text(
            'Majid Hajian',
             style: TextStyle(
             	fontWeight: FontWeight.bold
             ),
           ),
          ),
        ),
    ),
);
<style>
  .myclass{
  font-weight:bold; 
  text-align:center;
  padding: 10rem;
  }
</style>

<div class="myclass">
	Majid Hajian
</div>

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No CSS

var container = Container( 
  child: Center(
    child: Container(
      child: Text(
        "Lorem ipsum",
        style: bold24Roboto,
      ),
      decoration: BoxDecoration(
        gradient: LinearGradient(
          begin: const Alignment(0.0, -1.0),
          end: const Alignment(0.0, 0.6),
          colors: <Color>[
            const Color(0xffef5350),
            const Color(0x00ef5350)
          ],
        ),
      ), 
      padding: EdgeInsets.all(16),
    ),
  ),
  width: 320,
  height: 240,
  color: Colors.grey[300],
);
<style>
  .myclass{
      background: linear-gradient(180deg, #ef5350, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 80%); 
  }
</style>

<div class="myclass">
	Majid Hajian
</div>

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No Template No Markup

MaterialApp(
    home: Scaffold(
    	appBar: AppBar(
          title: Text('Hello World!'),
        ),
        body: Center(
          child: Text(
            'Majid Hajian',
             style: TextStyle(
             	fontWeight: FontWeight.bold
             ),
          ),
        ),
    ),
);

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Event

  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return GestureDetector(
        child: AbsorbPointer(child : child),
        onTap: () {
          print('tap');
          onTap();
        },
        onTapCancel: () {
          print('tapCancel');
        }
      );
  }

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Inherited

Widget

StoreProvider<int>{
    store: store,
    child: Text('Flutter Web!'),
}

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MaterialApp(
  initialRoute: "/login",
  routes: {
    "/login": (context) => LoginPage(),
    "/home": (context) => HomePage()
  }
);

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Use the LayoutBuilder class

Use the MediaQuery.of() method in your build functions

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Responsive

Design

class ResponsiveWidget {
  ...
  //Large screen is any screen whose width is more than 1200 pixels
  static bool isLargeScreen(BuildContext context) {
    return MediaQuery.of(context).size.width > 1200;
  }
//Small screen is any screen whose width is less than 800 pixels
  static bool isSmallScreen(BuildContext context) {
    return MediaQuery.of(context).size.width < 800;
  }
//Medium screen is any screen whose width is less than 1200 pixels,
  //and more than 800 pixels
  static bool isMediumScreen(BuildContext context) {
    return MediaQuery.of(context).size.width > 800 &&
    MediaQuery.of(context).size.width < 1200;
  }  
}





import 'package:landingpage/utils/responsive_widget.dart';
class Body extends StatelessWidget {
@override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return ResponsiveWidget(
      largeScreen: LargeScreen(),
      smallScreen: SmallScreen(),
    );
  }
  ...
}

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Animation

class AnimatedCount extends ImplicitlyAnimatedWidget {
  final int count;

  AnimatedCount({
    Key key,
    @required this.count,
    @required Duration duration,
    Curve curve = Curves.linear
  }) : super(duration: duration, curve: curve, key: key);

  @override
  ImplicitlyAnimatedWidgetState<ImplicitlyAnimatedWidget> createState() => _AnimatedCountState();
}

class _AnimatedCountState extends AnimatedWidgetBaseState<AnimatedCount> {
  IntTween _count;

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Text(_count.evaluate(animation).toString());
  }

  @override
  void forEachTween(TweenVisitor visitor) {
    _count = visitor(_count, widget.count, (dynamic value) => IntTween(begin: value));
  }
}

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PWA

Progressive Web App

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <base href="/">
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta content="IE=Edge" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible">
  <meta name="description" content="A new Flutter project.">
  <!-- iOS meta tags & icons -->
  <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
  <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">
  <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="gooey_edge">
  <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="icons/Icon-192.png">
  <!-- Favicon -->
  <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="favicon.png"/>
  <title>hello</title>
  <link rel="manifest" href="manifest.json">
</head>
<body>
  <script>
    if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) {
      window.addEventListener('flutter-first-frame', function () {
        navigator.serviceWorker.register('flutter_service_worker.js');
      });
    }
  </script>
  <script src="main.dart.js" type="application/javascript"></script>
</body>
</html>

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Debugging

inspection

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Modern

WEB

Web Assembly 

WebGL

Layout and Paint API (Worklets)

Service workers

PWAs

and more ...

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Community

Ecosystem

  • Amazing community
  • Lots of plugins / packages
  • pub.dev

How to Start!

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 // Install Flutter SDK 
 // flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install

 flutter channel stable
 flutter upgrade
 flutter create myapp
 cd myapp
 flutter run -d chrome
├── README.md
├── android
├── build
│   └── web
├── ios
├── lib
│   └── main.dart
├── pubspec.lock
├── pubspec.yaml
├── pwa_flutter.iml
├── test
│   └── widget_test.dart
└── web
    ├── favicon.png
    ├── icons
    ├── index.html
    └── manifest.json

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After production build

static assets

Write you code

Html Entry file

Similar to package.json

Demo

Credit: https://github.com/MarcusNg/flutter_facebook_responsive_ui

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Summary

  • Dart vs JS / TS
  • Flutter vs Web / Web vs Flutter?
  • How Flutter web works!

Flutter

Opens a new window for many developers to support several platforms with one single code base without compromising performance.

But one more thing...

Flutter web still needs improvement!

  • Better accessibility 
  • UI interaction improvement towards web convention
  • Performance improvment but overally it's good
  • Better SEO

Read more: https://medium.com/flutter/flutter-web-support-hits-the-stable-milestone-d6b84e83b425

  • Codesize

Learn more

  • flutter.dev/docs/get-started/flutter-for/web-devs
  • flutter.dev/docs/get-started/web
  • events.withgoogle.com/30-daysofflutter/
  • flutter.dev/docs/get-started/flutter-for/declarative

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Slides and link to source code

bit.ly/web-flutter

SVG icons credited to undraw.co

Taste of web with Flutter

By Majid Hajian

Taste of web with Flutter

The web is the largest application-delivery platform in existence and introducing progressive web applications takes it into the next level. Flutter, a UI toolkit to create beautiful cross-platform applications, supports standard web technologies like HTML, DOM, Canvas, JavaScript, and runs PWA on the browser; Not surprisingly, with only one language, Dart! In this session, I will fly you from a typical Javascript, CSS, HTML web development to Dart side with Flutter through live-coding of a beautiful progressive web app!

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