Using Lawndart to write offline web apps

What if the main requirement is that your app can work detached, providing universal offline key-value storage, whether IndexedDB is supported by your client's browsers or not? Then, Lawndart comes to the rescue.

Lawndart (https://github.com/sethladd/lawndart, but available via pub package) is not a new database, but rather a manager, which automatically chooses the best local storage mechanism available on the client. It was developed by Seth Ladd as a Dart rework of Lawnchair (http://brian.io/lawnchair/). You can see it in action in the project using_lawndart.

How to do it...

Import the Lawndart package by adding lawndart:any to your pubspec.yaml file. The following is the relevant code from the startup script using_lawndart.dart:

void main() {
  js = new JobStore();
  // 1- creating and opening the database:
  js.open();
  querySelector("#store").onClick.listen(storeData);
}

storeData(Event e) {
  var job = _jobData();
  // 2- writing...