A starting point for a webapp built with Dart. This template is recommended if you don't want to, or cannot, use Polymer or AngularDart.
This template features:
- Responsive web design, thanks to Web Starter Kit
- CSS minification, thanks to Sass
- Inlining scripts, thanks to
script_inliner - Routing and views, thanks to
route_hierarchical - Handling input, thanks to
dart:html
Thanks to Web Starter Kit, this template looks and acts great on
mobile and desktop. Using the styles found in web/styles, you can
be assured there is base support for phones, tablets, and laptops.
The lib/nav_menu.dart is required to trigger the menus when on a phone.
Thanks to Sass, CSS or SCSS files imported by web/styles/main.scss
are concantenated and minified during builds. The result is a small
and fast-loading CSS file.
Look in pubspec.yaml for the sass dependency. The Sass transformer
does the work of converting Sass into CSS and minimizing it.
To reduce the app startup time, this template inlines the dart.js file.
During a build, the contents of dart.js are included in the index.html
file.
Look in pubspec.yaml for the script_inliner dependency and transformer.
Any real app needs to deal with different views. Routing is the technique of responding to changing in the URL and changing the view of the app.
This template uses the route_hierarchical package. Look inside main.dart
for the route setup. It's very easy to extend.
Because this template isn't a full app framework (you should use
AngularDart, Polymer, or other great options in http:https://pub.dartlang.org
if you want a full app framework), the work of actually switching the views
is simply changing the display properties of different divs. Look inside
of main.dart for how different divs are displayed.
The authors of this template believe in routing, but do admit there are more scalable ways to manage views.
Using dart:html, this template simply finds the necessary input fields
via querySelector and binds to their keyUp events. Look inside
lub/reverser.dart for an example.
However, a real app framework will offer robust data binding.