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Learning Dart

You're reading from   Learning Dart Dart is the programming language developed by Google that offers a new level of simple versatility. Learn all the essentials of Dart web development in this brilliant tutorial that takes you from beginner to pro.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849697422
Length 388 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Dart – A Modern Web Programming Language 2. Getting to Work with Dart FREE CHAPTER 3. Structuring Code with Classes and Libraries 4. Modeling Web Applications with Model Concepts and Dartlero 5. Handling the DOM in a New Way 6. Combining HTML5 Forms with Dart 7. Building Games with HTML5 and Dart 8. Developing Business Applications with Polymer Web Components 9. Modeling More Complex Applications with Dartling 10. MVC Web and UI Frameworks in Dart – An Overview 11. Local Data and Client-Server Communication 12. Data-driven Web Applications with MySQL and MongoDB Index

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All web apps import the Dart library dart:html; this is a huge collection of functions and classes needed to program the DOM (look it up at api.dartlang.org). Let's discuss the base classes, which are as follows:

  • The Navigator class contains info about the browser running the app, such as the product (the name of the browser), its vendor, the MIME types supported by the installed plugins, and also the geolocation object.

  • Every browser window corresponds to an object of the Window class, which contains, amongst many others, a navigator object, the close, print, scroll and moveTo methods, and a whole bunch of event handlers, such as onLoad, onClick, onKeyUp, onMouseOver, onTouchStart, and onSubmit. Use an alert to get a pop-up message in the web page, such as in todo_v2.dart:

       	window.onLoad.listen( (e) =>       window.alert("I am at your disposal") );    
  • If your browser has tabs, each tab opens in a separate window. From the Window class,...

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