Dart: Up and Running

Get ready to build modern web apps. This book covers the Dart language, libraries, and tools that help you develop structured, fast, and maintainable web apps that run in any modern browser. The Dart platform has been designed to scale from simple scripts to complex apps, running on both the client and the server. With this book, you can use Dart to architect and develop HTML5 apps for the modern web.

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Get up to speed on Dart, the web development language that not only matches the dynamic nature of JavaScript, but addresses its problems as well. This practical book gets you up to speed on the language, libraries, and tools for developing structured, fast, and maintainable web apps that run in most browsers.
Google designed the Dart platform to scale from simple scripts to complex apps, running on both the client and the server. With this book, you’ll learn how Dart can help you architect and develop HTML5 apps for the modern Web.

• Build web apps with the class-based, object-oriented Dart language, and compile your code to JavaScript
• Learn how to use Dart features, from variables to operators to classes and libraries
• Create, launch, and debug web and command-line apps with the Dart Editor
• Get a tour of Dart libraries, including dart:core, dart:html, dart:isolate, dart:io, and dart:json
• Become familiar with tools such as Dartium, the Chromium-based browser that includes the Dart virtual machine
• Get a walkthrough of Dart Chat, a client-server app in which both the client and the server are implemented in Dart