Dart Experience

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Table of Contents

Part 1: Welcome to Dart
  1. Hello Google Dart: Free
  2. Creating “Hello World”

Part 2: Learning Dart concepts
  3. Core Dart
  4. Using Dart in the browser
  5. Discovering essential Dart

Part 3: Delving deeper into Dart
  6. Examining a Dart project
  7. Running Dart on the server
  8. Getting the most from the core libraries
  9. Advanced Dart
10. Building modern web apps with HTML5 and Dart
11. Dealing with data in Dart
12. Accessing external code
13. Finding Dart in the wild
Appendix 1: About object orientated Dart
Appendix 2: Building Dart from source

DESCRIPTION

JavaScript is a highly capable programming language, but it wasn’t designed to handle the rigorous demands of large-scale web applications. Dart is a new programming language created by Google to provide a better experience for web application developers and to address some of JavaScript’s shortcomings. Dart operates on both the client and the server, which allows a more consistent and efficient development process. It’s designed from the ground up to appeal to programmers familiar with a modern language like Java or C# while also retaining the dynamic and functional characteristics that make JavaScript popular. Dart applications can be “transpiled” to JavaScript or run in a Dart-enabled version of the Chromium web browser. Users familiar with node.js will be pleased that Dart also runs in a server side virtual machine.

Dart in Action introduces the Dart language and provides techniques and examples showing how to use it as a viable replacement for Java and JavaScript in browser-based desktop and mobile applications. It begins with a rapid overview of Dart language and tools including features like interacting with the browser, optional typing, classes, libraries, and concurrency with isolates. After you master the core concepts, you move on to running Dart on the server and creating “single page” HTML5 web applications.