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DART Essentials

DART Essentials

By : Sikora
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DART Essentials

DART Essentials

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By: Sikora
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Overview of this book

This book is targeted at expert programmers in JavaScript who want to learn Dart quickly. Some previous experience with OOP programming in other languages and a good knowledge of JavaScript are assumed.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1. Getting Started with Dart
1. Getting Started with Dart
What is Dart?
Why choose Dart?
Installing the Dart SDK
The Dart language tour
Summary
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2. Practical Dart
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2. Practical Dart
Optimizing DOM tree manipulations
The documentation search app
Combining Dart and JavaScript
Dart MythBusters
Summary
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3. The Power of HTML5 with Dart
3. The Power of HTML5 with Dart
Creating the Reddit Read Later app
Music visualizer
Other noteworthy APIs and libraries
Summary
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4. Developing a Mobile App with Dart
4. Developing a Mobile App with Dart
300 ms tap delay
Basics of CSS3 transformations
A 3D bookshelf with DeviceOrientation events
Position and distance tracker with the GeoLocation API and Google Maps API
Drawing into 2D canvas using onTouch events
Summary
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5. Web Components and polymer.dart
5. Web Components and polymer.dart
Web Components
The Web Components polyfill for older browsers
Basic HTML Import
Using Shadow DOM
Using Custom Elements
Polymer.dart
One-way data binding
Two-way data binding
Polymer core and paper elements
Summary
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6. AngularDart
6. AngularDart
Installing AngularDart
To-do list with AngularDart
Extending the to-do list
A book component in AngularDart
What is Angular 2.0?
Performance tips for AngularDart
Summary
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7. Server-side Applications with Dart
7. Server-side Applications with Dart
The standalone Dart VM
Parsing CLI arguments with the args package
Writing a chat app with the WebSockets server
Writing an HTTP server with the route package
Using Dart as a full-stack language
Summary
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8. Testing and Profiling the Dart Code
8. Testing and Profiling the Dart Code
Testing strategies for web apps
Unit testing
Operator overloading and mixins
Testing AngularDart apps
Profiling with the Observatory tool
Summary
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9. Writing Native Extensions for the Standalone Dart VM
9. Writing Native Extensions for the Standalone Dart VM
The structure of native extensions
Writing a minimal native extension
Writing a native fuzzy search implementation
Writing bindings for the exiv2 library
Distributing native extensions
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Index
Index

Chapter 2. Practical Dart

This chapter will focus on the most common features of Dart that you'll use every day for your next Dart project. In this chapter, we'll look at:

  • Manipulating DOM and HTML elements
  • Future-Based API, Dart's built-in library for working with asynchronous calls
  • Creating Ajax requests in Dart
  • How packages work in Dart
  • Calling JavaScript from Dart
  • Calling Dart from JavaScript

The whole chapter is intended to be very practical. We'll create a small app that reads a JSON dictionary and lets you search among all the terms in it. To make it more complicated, we'll implement a so-called fuzzy search algorithm, which doesn't search exact matches but the same order of characters instead.

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