Psst! You're not stuck with JavaScript anymore. Google's Dart language
makes programming for the Web simpler, faster, and more powerful. With
version 1.0 in 2013 and an ECMA standard in 2014, Dart is ready to
radically change web development for the better. And Dart 1 for
Everyone has got you covered. Completely updated for Dart 1 and the
ECMA standard, with new sections on new Dart features like method
cascades, event streams, and class constructor syntax, this book wastes
no time in immersing you in the finer points of this powerful and
surprisingly beautiful language.
Dart has changed significantly since the first printing of this book and
Dart 1 for Everyone has kept up. Every chapter has been revised and
some chapters have been almost completely rewritten since the first
printing. The MVC project chapters dumped the old JavaScript-like event
handlers for the sleek new streams interface, and the chapter on testing
reflects the extensive changes in testing now available in Dart.
Brand-new sections explore some of Dart's beautiful new features, such
as:
*Method cascades: Improve code readability dramatically.
- Event streams: Simplified event handling, consistent with virtually
every other asynchronous interaction in Dart.
*Library parts: Yet another way Dart promotes code organization.
- New class constructor syntax: Dart supports a nice variety of
surprisingly expressive and concise ways to declare constructors.
* Building your own packages: Quickly share your work with the world.
You'll start writing Dart code on page 1, and throughout the book,
you'll refactor that code to explore Dart's features: OOP, real
libraries and packages, testing, and more. You'll learn how to write
beautiful, maintainable application code that just works in all modern
browsers. Caution: after reading you may develop an intense attachment
to structured code and skinny jeans.
What You Need: You will need the Dart SDK, which is freely available
from https: //dartlang.org. Most of the book works with Dartium, a
preview release of Chrome that is included in the SDK and has the Dart
VM built-in. Some of the examples use either the dart2js tool or the
Dart Editor to compile Dart down into JavaScript - both are part of the
SDK.
