Chapter 7. Server-side Applications with Dart
In this chapter, we'll take a look at developing command-line server-side apps. In particular, we'll learn the following topics:
- How to process command-line arguments with the
argspackage - Writing a small chat app with a WebSockets server in Dart
- How to access filesystem with the
dart:iolibrary - Storing data to the MySQL database with the
sqljockypackage - Writing a small web server using the
routepackage - How to use Apache and nginx servers as reverse proxies for Dart HTTP servers
This chapter assumes that you already have at least basic experience with CLI scripts or Unix environments in general. If you're a Windows user, take a look at Cygwin (www.cygwin.com), which is a Unix-like environment for Windows, or ideally, install Ubuntu into a virtual machine. The Dart SDK is now available for Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions, while Dart Editor is currently available only for Ubuntu Linux.
We'll set off with a few notes...