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Introduction
Welcome to Web Programming with Dart. Early, in our careers we came to recognize how our world would change
thanks to the Internet and especially to web applications. Every device we use in our daily lives uses the Internet
intensively. If we consider the dierent sizes and characteristics of devices and the dierent operating systems
available, we understand the complexity of software application development.
Web applications can help us with that. You develop an application and deploy it through dierent devices
and screen sizes, but to accomplish this task you need a programming language designed to understand the web
development complexity and run in dierent platforms. e applications must be highly optimized and support
numerous options: geo-localization, notications, upload and play media les, or the interaction between users,
among others. We can develop web applications with those functionalities but the only way to develop such complex
applications is by using a high-level programming language specic to Web development with support for the latest
web technologies.
In this book you will master Dart, with a progressive and dynamic learning approach. It is one of the most complete
books on Dart written so far and provides the basics of developing web applications using Dart, an object-oriented and
structured language that supports interfaces, large hierarchy of classes, and optional typing. You will see examples
and even develop your rst complete web application, step by step. You will learn how to integrate Dart with CSS3 and
HTML 5, combine Web Services with Dart, use Dart on the server side, implement design patterns and create web
components. e book had been written with consideration for programmers who want to learn this new programming
language but also for web designers because Dart can interoperate perfectly with HTML5 and CSS3.
is book is oriented to developers and web designers who want to develop high-level web applications and
are sick and tired of ghting with the creation of cross-platform web applications; for everyone who needs a new, yet
familiar web programming language for modern web applications and really big projects; and for developers who
need a typed language for a fast, secure, and easy development and debugging process.
In the book we will travel from the most basic to the most complex functions of this language but we will also
cover all the tools available to get the most of Dart. With this book you will know the language, how the tools work,
and you will see the core functions and libraries. We will show you the history behind Dart and how it came to us.
We will develop some UI animation samples for web, work with web services, server-side Dart applications, and the
new Polymer.dart library for the new HTML UI web component generation.
We will take a broad tour, showing the Dart basic and advanced functionalities.•
You will learn the tools that come with Dart SDK and the main, most important libraries. •
Additionally you will work with the newest Polymer.dart library for web component creation.
You will be able to develop your own command-line and server-side applications and, of •
course, web applications with Dart.
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