Dart: Up and Running : A New, Tool-Friendly Language for Structured Web Apps

Kathy Walrath

ISBN 10: 1449330894 / ISBN 13: 9781449330897

Published by O'reilly Media Dez 2012, 2012

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Neuware - Get moving with Dart, the development platform that helps you build high-performance HTML5 apps for the modern Web. With this guide, you'll take a hands-on tour of the Dart language, libraries, and tools - including its editor and virtual machine - for developing structured, fast, and maintainable web apps that run on both the client and the server.Written by developer advocates at Google, this updated edition covers Dart 1.0. Google designed Dart to boost performance and help developers work more efficiently. This book shows you how to build everything from simple scripts to complex apps that work well in today's browsers. Build web apps with the object-oriented Dart language, and compile your code to JavaScript Delve into language features, from optional types and method cascades to named constructors Create, launch, and debug web and command-line apps with Dart Editor Explore Dart APIs, including dart:core, dart:html, dart:io, dart:convert, and dart:mirrors Use tools such as Dartium, the Chromium-based browser that can run Dart apps natively Walk through Dartiverse Search, a client-server app that combines useful and fun language and API features.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dart: Up and Running : A New, Tool-Friendly Language for Structured Web Apps
• Publisher: O'reilly Media Dez 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1449330894
• ISBN 13: 9781449330897
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

Kathy is a technical writer who's worked on docs for Chrome and other developer APIs at Google since 2006. Before that, she worked at Sun, NeXT, and HP. Back when the web was young, she wrote the first doc to help developers write Java applets. She also co-created The Java Tutorial and maintained it for a very long time. Seth is a Developer Advocate with the Chrome team. He is a conference organizer (Aloha on Rails, New Game), author (Expert Spring MVC), helped publish Angry Birds for the web, and is a big fan of HTML5 and the modern web.