
Flutter 2022 – Medium
Thanks to everyone who has read my articles this year, it’s a big incentive to write more.
I hope they saved you time, pushed you on to great things or simply got you excited about Flutter.
It’s the most exciting and fun framework I used in my 30+ year career as a dev.
At the end of November 2021 I spent a week building a prototype by gluing together any interesting package, widget I could find, by the end I knew Flutter was the real deal and the dev tools were top end.
The prototype code was as good a mess as you will find, and only fit for the bin. But it was well worth it given the fun I had and what I learned.
It was time to try again but this time clean, maintainable, test first, feature first, team level, professional as good as I could make it, and I knew that would mean a lot less fun upfront.
That’s why I started writing on Medium, to keep notes on what I’d done, what I needed to do to build real world Flutter applications that support multiple devices and platforms from a single code base.
My Flutter series was born, and I tried to focus on adding features in the first articles.
But I soon got distracted with the cross cutting concerns of component libraries, packaging, micro apps.
In November this year after writing for a year, there was a sudden up turn in readers and followers, I think it happened because I was asked to add a few of my articles to a publication.
By December thanks to those who have followed me as I’ve being able join the partner program and start to get paid for writing.
It’s a big incentive to do more next year.
I hope to complete my articles on the biggest cross cutting concerns of Authentication and data access in January and then get back to the good stuff, starting with animation and some more advanced widgets, working on the wow factor.
Hopefully, my writing helps you go further with Flutter next year, good luck.
Finally a thanks to Medium for giving writers more opportunities and reach, my advice would be to keep learning and start writing into the void until it responds.
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Good luck in 2023
SimBu
;o)
