Flutter and Dart Cookbook: Developing Full-Stack Applications for the Cloud

I like the fact the book starts with the basics and builds in a logical progression. Some of the topics, like testing UIs, are new to me and I have to resist the urge to jump to the chapters on handling data assets and working with Firebase and Flutter. This book along with Rich's book on serverless is a great combination for rapidly getting up to speed in application development in the cloud.

I’m a backend/embedded developer. All the UI development I’ve done has been for hardware/developer/technician tools, and are quite simplistic and were completed with outdated tools. Wanted to make an effort to get my team on a more modern tool. Chose Flutter and Dart. Did the Codelab for the namer app direct from the Flutter Website. Then made my app based on that and google searches. Just doing that exercise (Codelab plus something on your own) covers a lot of this book. Honestly, at the very least up to chapter 9. I was hoping for more. Debated to give it a 3; it’s a decent book and in reviewing the content I already knew I learned more/filled in some gaps. Some of the diagrams don’t seem to match the code. Minor but can be confusing if trying to read along

This book is organized very well and simplifies the code examples for easy understanding. I definitely recommend this book as a coding reference.

I was really disappointed to find that this book doesn't live up to O'Reilly's usually high standards. There are many errors and mistakes between code solutions and the discussion that follows, for example, in the pictures from fairly early in the book it describes a Map data type and incorrectly refers to the variable name as a key in the map. Then in the next paragraph, it refers to another Map variable that isn't even in the the code example. Finding these very obvious errors in fairly simple code solutions makes me dubious of all the more complex solutions later in the book.

Boken tar upp grunderna i Dart på ett acceptabelt sätt, men jag hade svårt för upplägget i form av: fråga - kort svar. Det blir ganska mycket enkla saker som repeteras och väldigt lite djup och förklaringar. Om du tycker om att förstå hur saker och ting hänger ihop, snarare än att se ett enda sätt att utföra något på, så behöver du nog inte den här boken.

S’appuie sur dart 2, on est donc à une majeure d’écart puisque dart 3 est sorti depuis le 10 mai 2023… De plus on sent que rien n’a été relu. Tous les exemples et leurs explications utilisent des naming différents, ce qui n’aide pas à la compréhension (dans l’image les exemples et graphiques utilisent la variable “dayCalculator” qui change de nom pour “weekClass” dans les explications…). Au prix du bouquin ce n’est pas loin d’être du vol… Je ne recommande pas franchement…