Author: Jay Mungara

After checking the dart overview, if you’re interested in learning dart then you’re at the right place. we will discuss about all the basic and advanced concepts of dart one by one.

Now you will be thinking about the prerequisites for learning dart language. And only one prerequisite required for learning dart throughout this journey is your willingness and interest in learning dart coding.

To practice your coding skills while learning different concepts, you will require tools or IDE to test your dart code.

So, we can run our dart code in following ways in different environments.

Run In DartPad

Starting from official editors, DartPad is the online editor for testing your dart programs. To test your programs on DartPad visit the official website

The DartPad executes the dart code online and displays both HTML as well as console output.

Run Dart Code with command-line using Dart VM

To run any dart program in your machine we need the support of Dart Virtual Machine (Dart VM) which contains the components for executing dart codes.

We can get Dart VM by Installing the Dart SDK(collection of dart libraries and components run our dart code). To download the current stable version of Dart SDK, visit the official website

Install the Dart SDK and then setup the PATH environment variable to following path :
<your-dart-sdk-path>\bin

Generally, SDK path in windows would be like (C:\Program Files\Dart\dart-sdk\bin).

Now, to verify the installation of the Dart VM write the below command in terminal :
dart

If installation is successful then it will show the dart runtime and details. Otherwise check out the above steps for installing dart SDK in your machine.

To run any program using command line, Create a file with .dart extension like hello.dart :

hello.dart file

void main() {
  print(‘Hello, World!’);
}

Now to run it in command line, Go to the dart file path in terminal and then write the code below,
dart hello.dart

Output :

Hello, World!

Run dart code with IDEs(like Intellij, WebStrom, Android Studio)

Now comes the IDEs which support the Dart as plugin to test our skills. So, there are numerous IDEs which provides support for Dart Plugin. Some of the Famous IDEs are :

• Intellij IDEA
• WebStorm
• Android Studio
• XCode

Differnt IDEs also requires Installation of Dart SDK in your Machine. So, install Dart SDK as instructed above.

After Installing the Dart SDK, you have to Install IDE of your choice. So, to Integrate Dart with Intellij IDEA Software Download any one IDE of your choice from below links.

Intellij IDEA visit official website
Webstorm visit official website
Android studio visit official website
XCode IDEA visit official website

Now, Install your IDE. Then Install dart plugin in your choice of IDE. Then Click on create a project and select Dart option and then you have to specify the path of your Dart SDK which you have downloaded. Then you will be able to create a project and run dart code as well.

So, in one of the above way you can setup your dart programming environment to test your coding skills while learning the dart language.

If you face any difficulty installing Dart SDK or anything else then comment below and we will help you to sort out your issue.

My personal suggestion to test your dart code is Dartpad or Intellij IDEA. As I really feel comfortable working with these two components.

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Dart Introduction / Dart Overview

Dart programming language was originally developed by Lars Bak and Kasper Lund in 2011 at Google.Inc Organization. Dart was revealed at the GOTO conference organized at Aarhus, Denmark, in October 2011.

What is Dart?

Dart is a general-purpose programming language originally developed by Google and later approved as a standard by Ecma organization. It is used to build web, server and mobile applications. It supports optionally typed(Static as well as Dynamic) language with Object Oriented Concepts.

Dart is an object-oriented, strongly typed, single inheritance language using a C-style syntax that transcompiles(compiler that converts the source code of a program into another language.) optionally into JavaScript. It supports classes, interfaces, polymorphism, abstract classes, generics, static typing and strongly typed system.

Dart is a Google’s Replacement to take on Javascript as the Default Programming Language of the web.

Why Dart?

Developers at Google and outside uses Dart to create high-quality apps for iOS, Android, and Web with features targeted for client-side development. Dart is a great fit for both mobile and web apps.

Productive

Dart’s syntax is clear and concise. its tooling is simple but powerful. Dart has feature-rich libraries and an thousands of packages having predefined classes to make your coding easier.

Fast

Dart provides optimizing ahead-of-time compilation to get predictably high performance and fast startup across mobile devices and the web.

Portable

Dart is platform-independent language. So that dart mobile apps can run natively on iOS, Android, and Web. For web apps, Dart transpiles(that generates JavaScript equivalent of a Dart code) to JavaScript.

Approachable

Developers have found that Dart is particularly easy to learn because it has features that are familiar to users of both static and dynamic languages.

Dart is familiar to many existing language as it has conventional syntax structure based object oriented programming. If you already know C++, C#, or Java, you can be easily familiar with Dart in just few days.

Reactive

Dart is well-suited to reactive programming due to Dart’s fast object allocation and garbage collector. Dart supports asynchronous programming through language features and APIs that use Future and Stream objects.

Usages of Dart

Dart is a scalable language that you can use to write simple scripts(Programs) or full featured apps. Whether you’re creating 1) a mobile app 2)web app 3)command-line script, or server apps.

Dart helps you to build beautiful, creative, high-quality, smooth user experience UI by providing flexible support for flutter SDK to create beautiful iOS and Android apps.

Dart compilation is very fast, predictable. Which helps flutter framework to make its components easily customisable.

Dart has fast development cycles and game-changing workflow due to its Just In Time compilation.

Flutter have the biggest advantage over other languages(like java, swift etc) as Flutter doesn’t require a separate declarative language(XML or JSX etc.) required to create an app layout due to dart’s declarative and programmatic support.

All these unique features makes dart very powerful for building Flutter Framework to create beautiful and user-friendly android and ios apps.

Dart code execution

There are three main ways to run dart code.

• Dart code can run on all major browsers with no need for browsers to adopt Dart. while running Dart code in a web browser the code is precompiled into JavaScript using the dart2js compiler.
• The Dart SDK also ships with a stand-alone Dart Virtual Machine, allowing dart code/program to run in a command-line interface environment(Command Prompt).
• Dart code can also be compiled in Ahead Of Time Mode in which, code can be directly converted in to native machine code.

At last, Dart is an interesting and emerging programming language with highly scalable features to support the development of mobile, web and command line apps.

In the case of web applications, AngularDart makes it a very powerful tool to build web apps.

In case of Mobile applications, Dart provides greater support for building android and ios apps from the same codebase.

In case of command line applications, the Dart SDK is constantly updating and developing to provide the greater user support.

Overall dart is a highly scalable and easy to learn a language for beginners while powerful and productive language for developers to build various apps efficiently.

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