Flutter — Lets Go
Flutter is exciting, there is a lot out there and I’m glad to be back building UI again, for mobiles and the web.
Join me on a series of blog posts while I learn and explore this great new cross platform framework.
My example project is called DigestibleMe and is a sharable collection of things of interest, music, food, travel, sport.
My choice is to be feature driven, feature first, feature focused.
It’s important to focus on the functionality, to see your ideas come to life and not get bogged down in logos, login etc.. that can be tackled later.
The blog posts focuses on functionality needed to build DigestableMe so we will start with Layout and then add topics as needed to build the application.
VSCode
I have chosen to use Visual Studio Code to build DigestableMe. Here is a list of useful utilities and shortcuts I have used on this project.
Shortcuts
Show method contextual help, options.
Ctrl + Space
Format document.
Ctrl + ⇧ + F
Refactor, good for wrapping widgets with container.
Ctrl + ⇧ + R
## Extensions
-[Data Class Generator] -\> See the post on [Layout].
Layout
Each blog post will have the following layout and sections will be included if required:
Ta Da
Demonstration of what’s been created.
XP
Useful experiences and insights based on using things.
You may get various build errors when running your application from vscode via launch.json.
If you do then running it from the flutter cli at the command line should fix the error, force a full rebuild.
BackBurner
Things to come back to later.
Links
Links to things I’ve googled, read, viewed, come across whilst writing the blog and any useful resources to dig deeper.
People
More links, quotes, info on interesting people like Uncle Bob.
Sound and Vision
What I’m listening to or watching.
One more thing…
